network troubles

[Mark Greenaway]

> From grass-lists-owner at max.cecer.army.mil Thu Nov 26 03:18:39 1992
> Sender: lists-owner at max.cecer.army.mil
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> Subject: network troubles
> 
> every morning during the work week we get thousands of messages across the 
> network. it looks like this :
> 
> le0: Receive: STP in rmd cleared
> le0: Receive: giant packet from ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> le0: Receive: STP in rmd cleared
> le0: Receive: giant packet from ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> le0: Receive: STP in rmd cleared
> le0: Receive: giant packet from ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> le0: Receive: STP in rmd cleared
> le0: Receive: giant packet from ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> 
> we use Sun SPARK machines but there are several different types of machines on
> the network. Has anybody else seen anything similar or better yet how could it be fixed ??
> 
> Ayn help is appreciated 
> _____________________________________________________________________
> |                                                                    |
> |  Tom Nelson                                                        |
> |  Corps of Engineers                                                |
> |  Fort Worth, Texas                                                 |
> |  (817) 334-2095                                                    |
> 
Tom,
    These giant packets are invariably caused by Macintoshes.
You said you have a mixed environment and a bet this includes Macs.
There is nothing that you can do about it, but the good news is that it causes
no known problems.
						Mark Greenaway