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Re: Weird Ethernet broadcast issue.
If that is true, then it sounds to me like there is something wrong with that switch. It appears to be copying all packets to all ports regardless of the destination MAC address. Beyond a software or hardware issue, the only thing I can think of that would cause this kind of behavior is if something is causing the switch to flush its MAC address table very rapidly.
If a frame enters a switch destined to a MAC address it does not have a port assignment for it will copy that frame to all ports as an "unknown" unicast.
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Napsterbater
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Milledgeville, GA
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| That sound plausible, I just Don't see what could be causing it, i only have 15 Devices 20 Max on the network and these are rated for 8000 MACs. When I first noticed I re-stared the whole LAN it didn't help. If Switch A (The Switch that has the MACs in question attached to it) sent that Broadcast to Switch B but B All ready had the MAC as Connected to the port going to A wouldn't B stop it right there? |
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mpier1213
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New York, NY
| There are not many MAC addresses in this trace. If you look you will see there are only a few that are used for non-broadcast traffic:
10.0.1.1 - is a 3Com NIC (00:26:54:13:dc:0a)
10.0.1.12 is an Asustek NIC (00:0e:a6:9d:d0:4c)
ALL other traffic is PPPoE traffic which uses the same Cisco MAC address (00:17:e0:bd:28:38).
It looks like the PPPoE/PPP adapter uses multiple IP addresses, but the same MAC address. |
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Napsterbater
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Milledgeville, GA
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| If you notice it all traffic destined TO (well internet via NAT) 10.0.1.3 -00:03:ff:60:c3:56, pppoe adapter (via PPPoE from the DSL Modem Bridge which is the Cisco MAC) - 00:03:ff:63:c3:56 (PPPoE Adapter is hooked to the switch with the DSL modem, and yes there is a reason) and 10.0.0.1 - 00:03:ff:62:c3:56, those are the MACs/IPs of a MS Virtual PC 2007 with m0n0wall running, m0n0wall has 3 vNics attached to 1 port of the server running MS V PC (If you think about it's like having a 5 port switch with 1 hooked to the server 3 to a m0n0wall and 1 back to the 16 port)
p.s.: These switches as I said before are dumb no management. |
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