Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux box causing network meltdown! HELP!!! | From | (Harvey J. Stein) | Date | 20 Jul 1999 16:08:50 +0300 |
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Dominik Kubla <dominik.kubla@uni-mainz.de> writes:
> 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.
In the test kernel I built I turned off IPX in addition to turning off multicast. These packets still went out.
-- Harvey J. Stein Bloomberg LP hjstein@bfr.co.il
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