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From: ronbo@nikhefk.UUCP (Ronald Boontje)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: broadcast storm
Keywords: broadcast FastPath 4 Kinetics
Message-ID: <508@nikhefk.UUCP>
Date: 23 Feb 89 12:12:13 GMT
Organization: Nikhef-K, Amsterdam (the Netherlands).
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We have noticed every ten seconds broadcast messages are sent 
between our two FastPath 4 gateways running K-Star. 
I have found that the ethernettype 809b is reserved by Kinetics. 
Can anybody explain what causes so many broadcasts and if it is
possible to reduce the broadcast traffic between the boxes.

Following a message dump of some traced broadcast-messages:
12:52:44.34  8:0:89:a0:44:99 ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 809b   46:
			 ff99 0100 1801 0101 0001 0899 3801 0100
			 0100 3802 0238 0300 3bb9 0000 0000 0000
12:52:54.26  8:0:89:a0:44:99 ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 809b   46:
			 ff99 0100 1801 0101 0001 0899 3801 0100
			 0100 3802 0238 0300 3bb9 0000 0000 0000
12:52:56.86  8:0:89:a0:49:40 ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 809b   46:
			 ffc0 0100 1801 0101 0001 08c0 3801 0000
			 0100 3802 0138 0301 3bb9 0000 0000 0000

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