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Date:      Thu, 23 Jan 1997 13:31:54 +0100 (MET)
From:      Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
To:        rg@gds.de
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Ping DUP
Message-ID:  <199701231231.NAA21897@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
In-Reply-To: <199701231229.NAA20550@gds.de> from "Richard Gresek" at Jan 23, 97 01:28:00 pm

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> route add 194.231.79.60 localhost
> 
> Now, when I ping this address from another network every ip-packet 
> get duplicated:
> 
> PING 194.231.79.60 (194.231.79.60): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 194.231.79.60: icmp_seq=0 ttl=251 time=59.921 ms
> 64 bytes from 194.231.79.60: icmp_seq=0 ttl=251 time=69.929 ms (DUP!)
> 64 bytes from 194.231.79.60: icmp_seq=1 ttl=251 time=60.104 ms 
> 64 bytes from 194.231.79.60: icmp_seq=1 ttl=251 time=70.113 ms (DUP!) 
> 64 bytes from 194.231.79.60: icmp_seq=2 ttl=251 time=60.108 ms 
> 64 bytes from 194.231.79.60: icmp_seq=2 ttl=251 time=70.071 ms (DUP!) 
> 64 bytes from 194.231.79.60: icmp_seq=3 ttl=251 time=50.142 ms 
> 64 bytes from 194.231.79.60: icmp_seq=3 ttl=251 time=60.133 ms (DUP!) 
> ^C ---
> 194.231.79.60 ping statistics --- 4 packets transmitted, 4 packets
> received, +4 duplicates, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max =
> 50.142/62.565/70.113 ms #
> 
> There are no DUPs when pinging from within the same net.
> 
> I did not have this problem with FreeBSD 2.1.5 nor with 3.0 and a 
> NE2000 clone.
> 
> Could it be a bug in the vx0 driver or did I misconfigure something?

most likely you have two paths to/from your host, and either the ping
request or the response are duplicated. It i also interesting to note
the 10ms difference between the dups -- although I cannot tell where
this difference comes from!

	Luigi
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