On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 11:17:16 +0100, Anders Nordström <and at telia dot com> wrote:
> I'm worried about the collisions on my LAN interface, since it's full duplex
> and connected to a gigabit switch. I've read somewhere that there could be
> problems with the Realtek 8029 chipset, which this NIC has. Could that be
> it?
> 

The reason is because it's not full duplex.  According to the ed(4)
man page, the full duplex mediaopt isn't available on that driver. 
Most every ed-based card I've seen has a coax port in addition to
RJ45, and coax can't do full duplex, so my educated guess would be the
chipset doesn't support full duplex at all (the driver doesn't, at a
minimum).

-Chris