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16 years agoThe driver electrical specification and requirements of collision avoidance in half-duplex operation of 10BASE-T twisted-pair ethernet medium can be found in IEEE Std. 802-3, Section One, Clause 14.
In a short, the interface has to listen on the receiving channel for colliding packets during transmission. The standard can be downloaded for free within the Get IEEE 802 program: http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/portfolio.html