Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Jul 1999 01:55:16 +0200 | From | Dominik Kubla <> | Subject | Re: Linux box causing network meltdown! HELP!!! |
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On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 01:35:13AM +0300, Harvey J. Stein wrote: ... > The network guys here got that from a sniffer they put on the line. > They say the weird things about the packet are the ethertype of 8808, > that it's shorter than the minimum packet size of 64 bytes, and that > it's a multicast broadcast packet. So, why my box is putting it on > the wire (especially given that I'm not doing any multicast), and how > do I stop it? BTW, rebuilding the kernel without multicast support > doesn't stop these weird packets from going out. ...
Are you by chance using IPX? If so, disable the autoconfiguration of the encapsulation. For some reason Linux' 802.x-IPX and Spanning-Tree don't like each other! If you need to use IPX in a switched enviroment, you'll have to go with EtherII. In addition there seems to be a problem if you have more than one encapsulation in use and both use the same IPX network number, something Windows apparently allows but Linux rejects.
Yours, Dominik Kubla -- "Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment." --Philip K. Dick. "Author's Note," A SCANNER DARKLY, 1977
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