On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 01:10:50AM +0000, Jean-Philippe Guérard wrote: > As far as I know, there is nothing wrong. Your kernel must have > been compiled with multicast support, and it is trying to "subscribe" > to the general multicast group. > > I believe the multicast RFC(s) mandates this. Win9x clients do this > also. > > To get rid of these packets, just compile your kernel without > the multicast option.
No, my kernels isn't -- nor has it ever been -- configured with
multicast on. And I never noticed this until about a week ago when I
started to investigate why the PPP link wasn't idling. Can anyone
confirm that their machines are doing the same thing? Can anyone
suggest what service or application would generate these packets?
/regards Anton
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