Runt packets wtf?

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My server and others have seen this repeatedly.
Runt packets
Runt packets
Runt packets
Runt packets
etc????

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Runt packets wtf?

WTF never herd of that b4

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Re: Runt packets wtf?
|¯|E><US wrote:

My server and others have seen this repeatedly.
Runt packets
Runt packets
Runt packets
Runt packets
etc????

A runt packet is an ethernet frame that is too small (i.e. less than the minimum allowed size of 64 bytes). They are ALWAYS a local LAN problem, because they will not get past any kind of routing device. They are usually caused by: excessive collisions (on a shared medium, such as a hub), bad cable, faulty NIC, etc.

Someone who is outside of your LAN cannot be injecting these packets, because, as I said, any routing device will just drop them.

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Runt packets wtf?

Exactly Cool