Bug 7707

Summary:	multicast flooding with idle system
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	dave brooks <dbrooks>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm>
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Description dave brooks 1999-12-09 18:22:40 UTC

we are experiencing problem with systems using intel nics causing multicast
storms and impacting other systems on the network. It appears to drivers or
features on the nic that are enabled -

Comment 1 dave brooks 1999-12-09 19:34:59 UTC

here is more detail on the issues

Destination Address 01-80-c2-00-00-01
Source Address (address of the NIC
Ethertype 8088
Frequency 0.84seconds

Hex Dump of the mulitcast packets
01 80 C2 00 00 01 00 A4 00 80 D2 9C 88 08 01
40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

This is a problem with the Intel "eepro100" driver. The problem appears to occur
when the system is halted but not turned off.

Comment 2 Cristian Gafton 2000-01-27 08:30:59 UTC

assigned to kernel

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2000-02-06 06:09:59 UTC

*** Bug 7731 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Alan Cox 2000-08-08 17:45:36 UTC

The frame in question is a flow control frame and is never generated by a linux
kernel.
Due to lack of documentation from intel on eepro100 configuration/setup its not
possible to guess what the post Linux shutdown/bios issue might be.