Re: [LI] Collision on HUB

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At 10:56 PM 1/28/00 , you wrote:
> 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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What is packet sniffer?  Can you give some more details?




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