Sat Sep 07, 2019 4:55 pm
This is quite common for data acquisition, scientific computing, etc. where FPGA cards are used, to have custom ethernet protocols for minimal overhead and ease of implementation, just absolute minimum to make the ethernet frames switchable.
Usually you configure source/destination MACs for the device to any values you need. Also protocol value is user configurable (so it's not any standard value). Then the device just starts spitting out the data...
There will be no IP addresses because there's no IP protocol used at all, usually some proprietary or custom protocol is used.
You could always use sniffer to sniff these frames and look at it closer, but if it's on customer LAN and it's not causing any issues for your network, why bother?
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r00t on Sun Sep 08, 2019 4:20 pm, edited 1 time in total.