Packets Received Unknown

We are getting thousands of "Packets Received Unknown" in our perfmon
counters. Can anyone give me an idea on how to determine where they are
comming from or what causes this error.

"Rick" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:7D36FF45-1C64-45B0-AC3D-(E-Mail Removed)...
> We are getting thousands of "Packets Received Unknown" in our perfmon
> counters. Can anyone give me an idea on how to determine where they are
> comming from or what causes this error.

Use Network Monitor (included in the OS), or install another packet sniffer
like Ethereal.

It's likely a virus, or some bad routing.

Oliver

Rick,

Is there a reason why you are looking at Perfmon in this area? I'm just
wondering what the root problem was that led you down this path. Are you
having any particular network related problems with this server that made you
enable Perfmon monitoring on the NIC?
--
Regards,

Patrick Boren


"Rick" wrote:

> We are getting thousands of "Packets Received Unknown" in our perfmon
> counters. Can anyone give me an idea on how to determine where they are
> comming from or what causes this error.

We have all sorts of problems that I am trying to troubleshoot. The thing
that started making us monitor this was our replication had failed due to
timeouts so when checked the network we found a delay in pings to the server.
We then started monitoring these counters.

"a-pabore" wrote:

> Rick,
>
> Is there a reason why you are looking at Perfmon in this area? I'm just
> wondering what the root problem was that led you down this path. Are you
> having any particular network related problems with this server that made you
> enable Perfmon monitoring on the NIC?
> --
> Regards,
>
> Patrick Boren
>
>
> "Rick" wrote:
>
> > We are getting thousands of "Packets Received Unknown" in our perfmon
> > counters. Can anyone give me an idea on how to determine where they are
> > comming from or what causes this error.