Let's do a little math:
10 Mbps * 3600 s = 36 Gb/hour at 100% utilization
36Gb/hour * 0.05 = 1.8 Gb/hour at 5% utilization
1.8 Gb/hour / 8 bits/Byte = 225 MB/hour at 5% utilization
Worst case scenario: all packets are of the maximum size of roughly 1500
bytes. Thus,
225 MB/hour / 1500 Bytes/packet = 150,000 packets/hour
Of course these were the successfully transmitted packets.
6500 / (150,000+6500) = 4.15% collisions (worst case)
If you had smaller packets, which alot undoubtedly were, the collision
percentage is lower because you had more packets. Not to mention I probably
goofed somewhere either in my analysis or my arithmetic.
Matt
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Klemme <rklemme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: 'Cisco Listserv' <cisco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, March 05, 1999 3:57 PM
Subject: Sniffer results
>I am doing some monitoring of a network with a Sniffer, here are the
>results.
>
>In a 1 hour capture there were 6,500 collisions and the max utilization was
>89%,
>the average utilization was less than 5%. Is this normal amount of
>collisions, this
>is anEthernet segment so I know it is contention based network but it seemd
>a b
>bit high to me. I welcome any comments.
>
>thanks
>
>Robert
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