Re: Nuisances with Ethernet network.
"Dr. Daniel Mashao" <daniel@comgate.ee.uct.ac.za> writes:
> Oct 7 16:54:25 vitasat kernel: IPX: Network number collision 53
> Oct 7 16:54:25 vitasat kernel: eth0 EtherII and eth0 802.2
>
> over and over. Now I cannot find out where it comes from and how to
> disable it and of course what it means. My connection seems to work fine.
It's coming from the IPX drivers in the kernel, in net/ipx/af_ipx.c's
ipxitf_rcv function. I don't know anything about the underlying IPX
protocol. However, I believe EtherII and 802.2 are different
protocols for encasulating the data across an Ethernet. (Actually,
802.2 covers token ring, FDDI, etc. as well).
I get the impression from the code that you're getting different link
layer protocols on the same interface, which isn't a problem, but
they've got the same network number, which is. You need someone who
knows IPX who's got a packet analyser, and isn't afraid to use it.
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kernel: validated probe(100007f, 100007f, 11557, 5010, -1645409555)
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