Re: Linux box causing network meltdown! HELP!!!
Dominik Kubla (dominik.kubla@uni-mainz.de)
Tue, 20 Jul 1999 22:48:13 +0200
On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 04:08:50PM +0300, Harvey J. Stein wrote:
> Dominik Kubla <dominik.kubla@uni-mainz.de> writes:
...
> >
> > Are you by chance using IPX? If so, disable the autoconfiguration of
> > the encapsulation. For some reason Linux' 802.x-IPX and Spanning-Tree
> > don't like each other! If you need to use IPX in a switched enviroment,
...
>
> In the test kernel I built I turned off IPX in addition to turning off
> multicast. These packets still went out.
How about bridging? Any routing daemon running? Any unusual networking
daemons running?
Yours,
Dominik Kubla
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