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>From a long time I am facing a problem with my servers (Ubuntu 5.04) ethernet port. Sometimes it works very fast and sometimes when I try to contact server it takes few second to show if the server is available. I ran tcpdump on eth0 and stored the output in a file. All the entries i checked were of normal transaction over network except one which I could not understand, do you know what that line means. I have copies that line from tcpdump's output to here:<BR>
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16:14:13.325005 802.1d config TOP_CHANGE 8001.00:13:c4:4f:d1:80.8016 root 8001.00:13:c4:4f:d1:80 pathcost 0 age 0 max 20 hello 2 fdelay 15 <BR>
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In the output of tcpdump, in everysecond its showing multiple entries but when this entry comes, it shows only this entry in that particular second but not multiple lines. Also I could not understand what this line is for.<BR>
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Can you help me please.<BR>
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Thanks & regards
Ashwani Jain
Systems Administrator
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