Broadcast

[RTurske]

When I use my trafic map part of my siffer software, I see alot of brodcast traffic. I don't see it as much when I look at the IP protocol, but looking at the MAC part, there is alot. Can anyone tell me what this traffic is for?

 

[deadpan]

It may have something to do with the way you have set up your name resoloution. Are you connecting your mac's to a dns server. I your clients are not pointing to some sort of name reoloution server or there are no host name to ip address mappings in your clients local host files computers will try and resolve addresses using broadcasts. Otherwise it maybe you have configured your subnet mask improperly and clients are assuming remote hosts are local and are trying to contact them via broadcasts. Ive never worked with mac's on the network so this is all speculative.

 

[XoverIP]

first of all.....excuse my ignorance for not having de luxery of a $15K protocol analyzer, YET. Are you reffering to MAC Addresses....er sumptin like de AppleTalk protocol? I may be able to give U some assistance on this whid some more info. Can you tell me the dot-com address for the sniffer that you are using, pleez.
skoobz

 

[RTurske]

I use a product called Sniffer Basic from Network Associates. It wasn't real expencive because it only looks at local network not WAN. The part number is SBS-DRCT-NA-300 TNV Suite. It is easy to use and has helped me solve some problems.

Yes, I was refering to MAC Addresses not Mac the POS computer.

Hope this helps.