[Breen Mullins <bmullins@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

On reflection, it seems that we should change the description
of this OUI in the manuf file. 01-80-c2 is used for IEEE 802.1
frames in general, so something like this might be less confusing:

--- manuf.old   2004-07-09 12:55:19.185116809 -0700
+++ manuf       2004-07-09 12:56:20.363800969 -0700
@@ -7648,7 +7648,7 @@
 01-00-81-00-01-01      Bay-Networks-(Synoptics)-autodiscovery
 01-20-25/25            Control-Technology-Inc's-Industrial-Ctrl-Proto.
 01-80-24-00-00-00      Kalpana-Etherswitch-every-60-seconds
-01-80-C2-00-00-00/44   Spanning-tree-(for-bridges)
+01-80-C2-00-00-00/44   IEEE-802.1-Bridge
 01-80-C2-00-00-10      Bridge-Management
 01-80-C2-00-00-11      Load-Server
 01-80-C2-00-00-12      Loadable-Device


Breen
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