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From: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
Subject: Re: rx_dropped packets stop with tcpdump running
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:59:47 -0400
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On 04/20/2012 04:34 AM, Marco Berizzi wrote:
> 
> tushar.n.dave@intel.com wrote:
>> Marco,
> 
> Hi Dave,
> 
> as pointed by Eric, the counter is
> increasing because a windows box is
> sending out packets with ethertype
> 0x886d

0x886d or 0x86DD?  That second one is IPv6, you might just need to load the module.

-Brian