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"accidents happen [in LAN]", "at least the router is exact (for the most part)"

What does this mean?

Then towards the end... "the packet is recycled". What?

I don't know about packet recycling, but at least with the 'for the most part', packet collision and packet loss used to be a lot more common for some reason. Nowadays the only times I see them on local networks is when cables get badly kinked or terminations are poorly done.

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