Re: ping duplicate packets
First I pinged from redhat to my debian box. Later that day I pinged
it from a BSDI server. I saw duplicate packets on both occasions.
On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 20:12, Jim B wrote:
> Note that you also could get dupes as a result of the client PC, i.e. the
> one FROM which you are pinging your Linux machine.
>
> I saw this happen a couple times at my old job... a kid was pinging a host
> from a Win95 PC and was getting dupes... it turned out that he had Client
> for Microsoft Networks in there twice, and bound to TCP/IP both times... we
> took out the extra one and he was fine.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Remco van 't Veer <rveer@cable.a2000.nl>
> To: Debian List <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 1999 9:03 AM
> Subject: ping duplicate packets
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > This is not directly Debian related, sorry.
> >
> > Today I pinged my box over the Internet and the ping util reported it
> > received some duplicated packets. I never saw this before. I am
> > wondering when and why this happens. Who or what is duplicating these
> > packet, my box or some box on the route? I am using a 2.0.36 kernel
> > on a i386 machine.
> >
> > Thanks..
> >
> > Regards,
> > Remco
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