Re: [PLUG] ethernet: "short frame"

[John Fiore <fiorejp@yahoo.com>]

Have you tried increasing the snap length?

--- Eric Lucas <eric@lucii.org> wrote:
> I'm not a network technician but I've been pressed
> into trying to troubleshoot
> what is believed to be a network problem =8-O
> 
> [aside:  The symptom is a DOS application on two
> separate Win98 computers
> randomly complains that it has lost network
> connectivity.  I'm sniffing 
> the network with tcpdump to see if I can determine
> what the cause of this
> failure is.]
> 
> I'm using tcpdump to create files (tcpdump -w
> logfile) and then examining them
> with ethereal. A number of the packets say: "[short
> frame]" in the summary line
> and "[short frame: NDBS]" or "[short frame: NMPI]"
> (for example) in the details
> of the packet.
> 
> What is a "short frame"?  Is it a problem?  I
> _think_ that it means there is a 
> collision that chops off the end of the packet and
> the packet should be
> retransmitted.  There sure seems to be a
> considerable number of these "short
> frames".
> 
> Google and some other internet searches have
> produced little useful (to me)
> information.  :-|
> 
> Any insight would be appreciated 
> 
> Eric
> 
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> Eric Lucas
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