cyrus@hi.unm.edu (Tait Cyrus) (10/02/88)
A while back I asked why our proteon box was sending out ethernet packets with a type of `7030'. The answer I received was that that was a "test packet that the proteon ethernet board automatically sends out". Well, that is fine and dandy, but I want to know how to disable this test (unless it is required for the proteon to operate). Even though they are minimum size packets (64 bytes) there are a lot of packets that get send (~1/ 4 sec). While watching our network for 26 hours, I saw 23,642 packets totaling 1,511,552 bytes. That is a Megabyte of data. Granted that is a VERY VERY small fraction of the bandwidth. I just think it is something on the net that does not have to be there. Any ideas on how to turn this off or disable it? Thanks in advance --- @__________@ W. Tait Cyrus (505) 277-0806 /| /| University of New Mexico / | / | Dept of ECE - Parallel Processing Research Group @__|_______@ | Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131 | | | | | | hc | | e-mail: | @.......|..@ cyrus@pprg.unm.edu | / | / @/_________@/