On Apr 9, 2006, at 9:29 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The usual cause for this is a busticated NIC - in years gone by,
similar
things were caused by "jabbering" transceivers that would start
transmitting
their packet sooner than the spec allowed, resulting in the first
few bytes
being dropped, or noise bytes being added...
There's an outside chance that there's a packet-crafting program
with an
off-by-one error, but I've seen this caused more often by broken
hardware.
Good point - this is where an analysis of the traffic would be
helpful, to see if there appear to be 'conversations' taking place or
if it's just random garbage (I suspect the latter as you indicate,
but that's purely speculative without data).
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