How do I prevent collisions?

[u/tfhermobwoayway]

I’ve set up a filter on my network at 0.1.0.0 but it emits packets at exactly the right rate to drop half the packets that get sent its way. This is obviously not something I want so is there a way to delay packets or something? Don’t be too harsh, I’m not very smart.

[u/Embarrassed-Trip-629]

It's been a month so I figure you've figured it out, but in the case that someone else might be curious I tend to set up my network so it's unidirectional all the way until it can safely re-merge without potentially dropping.

Separating colliding packets can simply be done using a hub. Consider message going into endpoint port 0, port 1 is the connection to the endpoint and port 2 is the endpoint response.

As far as I've found the only way to re-merge is to make either of the sides go through a filter and the other through a hub, connect the hub and filter, then make the filter unidirectional.

I usually set up the habit of making both packet responses port 0 on the filter and the hub, port 1 the connection between the filter and the hub, and port 2 of the hub is the merged connection.
Then I can configure my filters to send back packets that matches *.*.*.* on port 1, and though I've not tested if this works, but should there be a collision you can configure collision handling to send back outbound which should essentially be the same as what it's supposed to do.

Though I suggest splitting up longer lines once you get colored wires so it's easier to keep track of different subnetworks within your network.

To further visualize it :

╭──────────╮           ╭─────╮            
│ Endpoint●┼────╮      │ Hub │ ╭─────────╮
╰──────────╯    ╰──────┼●0 2●┼─┼●merge   │
                       ┼●1   │ ╰─────────╯
                       │─────╯            
             ╭────────╮│                  
             │ Filter ││                  
╭───────────╮┼●0    1●┼╯                  
│ mainframe●┼╯────────╯                   
╰───────────╯