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03-05-2006 09:15 PM
03-05-2006 09:15 PM
HP Switch Protocol
HP Switch Protocol
Essentially, if I do a network trace from my LAN PC (using Ethereal), I see large amounts of traffic from all switches, which is identified by Ethereal as 'HP Switch Protocol' and 'HP Extended Local-Link Control'. Because I can see the traffic from my switched port, it has to be multicast, as the destination MAC address is not a broadcast one. The traffic has a source MAC of the switch, but all frames have a destination MAC of 09:00:09:00:00:67. Even with the latest release of Ethereal, the DSAP and SSAP types are listed as Unknown (0x0623). We do use CDP here for network mapping, but that is identified seperately as a known protocol. All the switches on the network seem to be doing this periodically.
The decoded part of the packet for the 'HP Switch Protocol' identifies the switch name, MAC, f/w version, device type and IP address, and is listed as version 0x03, type 0x01.
Anyone have any ideas what this traffic is?
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03-06-2006 12:00 AM
03-06-2006 12:00 AM
Re: HP Switch Protocol
Re: HP Switch Protocol
LLDP use other mac addresses for sending announcements.
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03-06-2006 11:56 AM
03-06-2006 11:56 AM
Re: HP Switch Protocol
Re: HP Switch Protocol
Each switch with stacking enabled will send one packet every 60 seconds.
You can disable it by 'no stack' if required.
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03-06-2006 08:44 PM
03-06-2006 08:44 PM
Re: HP Switch Protocol
Re: HP Switch Protocol
I'll verify that the traffic is coming from the switches in stacks only, but is sounds very plausable.
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03-07-2006 12:12 PM
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09-23-2008 01:49 AM
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