Hello List,
I'm running a ping command to monitor our connection to the Internet. Around yesterday, I was getting a lot of (DUP!) text on the replies.
Would anyone know what that means?
-- Stand before it and there is no beginning. Follow it and there is no end. Stay with the ancient Tao, Move with the present.
Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) wrote:
Hello List,
I'm running a ping command to monitor our connection to the Internet. Around yesterday, I was getting a lot of (DUP!) text on the replies.
Would anyone know what that means?
man ping
... [snip] ... DUPLICATE AND DAMAGED PACKETS ping will report duplicate and damaged packets. Duplicate packets should never occur, and seem to be caused by inappropriate link-level retransmissions. Duplicates may occur in many situations and are rarely (if ever) a good sign, although the presence of low levels of duplicates may not always be cause for alarm.
Damaged packets are obviously serious cause for alarm and often indi- cate broken hardware somewhere in the ping packet’s path (in the net- work or in the hosts).
On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 20:07 -0400, Barry L. Kline wrote:
Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) wrote:
Hello List,
I'm running a ping command to monitor our connection to the Internet. Around yesterday, I was getting a lot of (DUP!) text on the replies.
Would anyone know what that means?
man ping <snip>
I don't think this qpplies in your scenario, but I have seen this on a *LAN* that had two nodes with the same IP. Were you pinging a local IP? Anyway, if it is, maybe you'd be lucky and and arp -av would show two MACs with the same IP?
HTH
-
Barry L. Kline -
Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) -
William L. Maltby