Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!jmg
From: jmg@cernvax.UUCP (jmg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Level 1 routing packets (unnecessary)
Keywords: decnet
Message-ID: <738@cernvax.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jun 88 15:01:54 GMT
Reply-To: jmg@cernvax.UUCP ()
Organization: CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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We have a particular level 2 router which has a nasty habit of putting
out a partial level 1 routing packet (for the first 32 nodes in the area)
every second for a long time. Odd thing is that there is absolutely no
change in the routing information for these 32 nodes.

I know that there was a fix found for stopping level 2 routers to put
out unnecessary level 2 routing packets, but I do not recall seeing any
fix for unnecessary level 1 routing packets. Did I miss something?
Is this problem seen anywhere else?

(I spend my time trying to reduce broadcast/multicast traffic on a very
large Ethernet with hundreds of vaxes, PCs, Macs, Apollos, Suns, gateways,
terminal concentrators, bridges etc. etc. etc.!!!)
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