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From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
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Subject: Re: Fw: Very weird network behaviour with 4.7-RELEASE-p10 (large)
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On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, Giovanni P. Tirloni wrote:

>  I'm forwarding this here in case anyone wants to take a look.
>
> ----- Forwarded message from "Giovanni P. Tirloni" <gpt@tirloni.org> -----
>
> Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 04:12:55 -0300
> From: "Giovanni P. Tirloni" <gpt@tirloni.org>
> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i
> Subject: Very weird network behaviour with 4.7-RELEASE-p10 (large)
>
> Hi,
>
>  I have been doing some tests using hping2 and TCP SYN
>  pings targeting local and remote hosts from two FreeBSD
>  4.7-RELEASE-p10 and one Linux 2.4.18 host.
>
>  The three machines have the same hardware configuration
>  and have been running for 6 months now. The average load
>  isnt too high (usually 0.01 to 0.15) on the FreeBSD machines.

I'm not sure I see anything strange here, could you be more specific?  All
the duplicate packets just look like syn-ack retransmissions.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack