Arindam, These are part of spanning tree protocol (STP) used in bridging (or bridged) environments.
You must be using a bridge on your network. -Martin : hi all, : what the folowwing tcpdump messages mean ??... : 802.1d--does this packet related to wireless ?? : : 23:11:47.946515 0:40:96:51:ef:74 1:80:c2:0:0:0 0026 60: 802.1d config : 8000.00:40:96:51:ef:74.8001 root 8000.00:40:96:51:ef:74 pathcost 0 age 0 : max 20 hello 2 fdelay 15 : 23:11:49.948042 0:40:96:51:ef:74 1:80:c2:0:0:0 0026 60: 802.1d config : 8000.00:40:96:51:ef:74.8001 root 8000.00:40:96:51:ef:74 pathcost 0 age 0 : max 20 hello 2 fdelay 15 : : thanking in advance... : A.H : : _______________________________________________ : LARTC mailing list / [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/ : -- Martin A. Brown --- SecurePipe, Inc. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/