Re: capturing packets with identical MAC for sourceand destination

["David Laight" <David.Laight () ACULAB COM>]

> currently we are expierencing bad network performance. And in the log of a linux-server i have a lot
> of these messages:
>
> Sep  2 10:16:08 pc60181 kernel: [4286760.823563] br0: received packet on eth0 with own address as
> source address

Since you know your own MAC address, you can just filter for it directly.

However I think you'll find that it is a broadcast packet and that you
have a loop in the network somewhere.

A simple trace of 'everything' will probably show bursts of repeated packets.

        David



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