it's being caused by your switch determining it's spanning tree topology. for cisco, you can eliminate this by setting span-tree portfast to enable. (it's hunting for other connected switches).
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From: ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Matt Kopf
Sent: July 9, 2004 12:01 PM
To: 'Ethereal user support'
Subject: [Ethereal-users] Protocol question
When running ethereal on our LAN I get a flood of packets with protocol
0x8808. the source is 00:00:00_00:00:00 and the destination is
Spanning-tree-(for-bridges)_01. Under info it says Ethernet II.
What I am trying to find out is what device on our network is sending this
junk out so I can shut it up. I have been unable to find any useful
information on google about it. Any one know?
Matt Kopf
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