I just wanted to thank all of you for your help! Now at least I do know
where to look to fix this!
Matt
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>From: ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ethereal-users-
>bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Breen Mullins
>Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 09:50
>To: 'Ethereal user support'
>Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] Protocol question
>
>On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 09:00, Matt Kopf wrote:
>> 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?
>
>
>Ethertype 0x8808 is a flow control frame. It should have a valid
>source MAC, but yours apparently doesn't.
>
>I'd bet first on a dodgy switch. Any bridge that groks flow control
>should sink those. The source is probably the switch that you're
>connected to. Try another port, or another switch.
>
>Breen
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