Re: [LI] Collision on HUB

[Arun Sharma <adsharma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 07:10:54PM +0530, paradigm@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I recently installed Samba on my Box(RH 6.1) and five windows95 machines 
> connected through Compex Hub, 10MB.  It was working perfectly before, now 
> what happened is when ever people access each machines, there is a yellow 
> light blinking(Collision) on the Hub and it takes long time even copying a 
> small file.  How do I check this?  Any software available both in Windows95 
> and Linux?   Can anybody help me?

Use a packet sniffer to check the traffic on the net. Something might be
flooding your network with unnecessary traffic. If you suspect that
it is samba, stop and it and run experiments to confirm.

	-Arun
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