Re: Linux box causing network meltdown! HELP!!!

Gregory T. Norris (haphazard@socket.net)
Mon, 19 Jul 1999 22:02:53 -0500


Are you using IPX, by any chance? If so, I've got a patch I can send
you which may take care of it...

On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 01:35:13AM +0300, Harvey J. Stein wrote:
>
> My linux box (RH 6.0 with RH supplied kernel, version 2.2.5) is
> putting a weird packet out the ethernet port which is causing a Cisco
> ethernet switch to go insane, spewing out packets wildly & bringing
> the network down. This isn't exactly wining lots of friends for Linux
> over here. I also can reproduce this effect fairly easily, at least I
> could until my box was banned from the net for this!

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