I have been monitoring my network for some time know and
found that my windows machines a creating a broadcast
storm. is there a way to tell windows to stop this? I
have some othere devices that send out request and i'm
setting them on a seperat Vlan.

Hi,

First you will have to determine what is running on the Windows machines
that is causing them to send the broadcasts. You can get a sniff and look at
the broadcast traffic to find out more details - is it ICMP traffic? Arp
traffic? Some other traffic?
You could try booting in "Safe mode with Networking" and see if the machine
quits sending the excessive broadcasts. If this works, then you know the
machine has a service, application or virus causing the traffic. You will
need to test by removing the 3rd party stuff one by one and seeing if the
problem goes away.

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Thanks,
Marc Reynolds
Microsoft Technical Support

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"jereme" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I have been monitoring my network for some time know and
> found that my windows machines a creating a broadcast
> storm. is there a way to tell windows to stop this? I
> have some othere devices that send out request and i'm
> setting them on a seperat Vlan.

OK, i went and found what kind it is.
From my windows machines:
DHCP
ARP
SMB C Transactions
UDP Netbious service
Print servers:
Apple Talk multicast
Arp
Netbios
My print servers i'm putting in a seperat Vlan or Subnet.
the windows machines is what is left.

>-----Original Message-----
>Hi,
>
>First you will have to determine what is running on the
Windows machines
>that is causing them to send the broadcasts. You can get
a sniff and look at
>the broadcast traffic to find out more details - is it
ICMP traffic? Arp
>traffic? Some other traffic?
>You could try booting in "Safe mode with Networking" and
see if the machine
>quits sending the excessive broadcasts. If this works,
then you know the
>machine has a service, application or virus causing the
traffic. You will
>need to test by removing the 3rd party stuff one by one
and seeing if the
>problem goes away.
>
>--
>
>Thanks,
>Marc Reynolds
>Microsoft Technical Support
>
>This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
confers no rights.
>
>
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>> I have been monitoring my network for some time know and
>> found that my windows machines a creating a broadcast
>> storm. is there a way to tell windows to stop this? I
>> have some othere devices that send out request and i'm
>> setting them on a seperat Vlan.
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