[comp.dcom.lans] How much packet loss is acceptable?

jerry@oliveb.UUCP (03/31/87)

We have an ethernet connecting 14 computers all located in the same room.
I was playing arround with "ping" (4.3BSD Unix on a Vax750) and noticed
that packets were lost when talking to the other systems.  If I run:

		ping othersys 1500 100

It reports that ~7% of the packets were lost.  While this doesn't seem
to be causing any problems I am concerned about potential degredation.
Is this an inevitable loss based on timeing or something?  Should I
investigate my cabling and tranceivers for problems?

					Jerry Aguirre
					Systems Administration
					Olivetti ATC