Ethereal results...

[mwilliamsess]

I ran Ethereal on my PC and I am getting a tremendous amount of broadcast traffic from my 2 Layer 3 switches. They are 3COM 4950s are they are sending out arp broadcasts looking for 161.71.15.126 I don't know how to stop them from doing this but they are flooding the network with this traffic. Within 1 minute I got over 200 broadcast from these 2 switch looking for this address.

 

[pansophic]

It resolves as a 3com address in Europe. Any chance that they are configured to "phone home" when they have a problem?


pansophic

 

[mwilliamsess]

Through 3COMs knowledge base I found that these switches send out a broadcast every second to this address because they support XRN. They also said it doesn't effect network performance but we are getting a lot of broadcast from these switches.