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Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] Re: IP phones and 3Com 3300 switch

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From: "Randy Truitt" <truitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 10:46:47 -0400
On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 10:27:01AM -0400, wrote:
> when I use ethereal from my workstation, I can see the IP phones talk to =
> the IP cards in the phone system... not a broadcast or multicast, but a =
> real IP address talking to another real IP address... say 10.10.2.25 =
> talking to 10.10.3.65. =20

What MAC level addresses are being used in the packets?
The VoIP app could be using unicast addressing at the network layer and
broad/multicasting for delivery.

R.