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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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 -- Saddam Hussein domestic disruption hacker Panama NSA FNLC Patijn Kosto Echelon FBI smuggle Khaddafi fissionable MDMA Northold DES explosion
