sorry for the late replies, and thanks for the comments.
I sense some fundamental misunderstandings here. Basically:
A collision on half duplex media (such as a hub) is a *normal* and
*expected* occurence, and does *not* cause a packet to be dropped.
Note that this does not apply to "late collisi
Hi all,
Recently I've been investigating why tcpdump on my IDS shows quite a few
packets as being dropped. I think this is because my traffic to the IDS is
fed through a hub where I know there are many collisions (there may be too
many packets per second for the little soho 10/100 hub to handle
