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Comment by AnthonyMouse

2 days ago

Not as far as TCP is concerned it isn't. You sent the network a packet and it had to throw it away because something else sent packets at the same time. It doesn't care whether the reason was an electrical collision or not. A buffer is just a funny looking wire.

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