From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 24 18:51:10 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A835E1065674 for ; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:51:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nvass9573@gmx.com) Received: from mail.gmx.com (unknown [213.165.64.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EFE158FC24 for ; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:51:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nvass9573@gmx.com) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 24 Mar 2009 18:51:08 -0000 Received: from adsl58-81.ath.forthnet.gr (EHLO [192.168.1.5]) [77.49.89.81] by mail.gmx.com (mp-eu004) with SMTP; 24 Mar 2009 19:51:08 +0100 X-Authenticated: #46156728 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19ySZFJK41y2RFthrNjjCvD1qymTHJQ57Y6/RzUGY MfXEKPZVCVQfyq Message-ID: <49C92B91.6020801@gmx.com> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:50:57 +0200 From: Nikos Vassiliadis User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Halliday References: <2dab70a30903240925j1ba24f22t3eaf88c12d9802d6@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2dab70a30903240925j1ba24f22t3eaf88c12d9802d6@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.78 Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: Ping (DUP!). X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:51:11 -0000 Paul Halliday wrote: > Is this situation always indicative of a network problem or can you > get a DUP from a machine that is multihomed and doing load balancing? No, that's definitely a problem. Load-balancing mechanisms - try to - forward packets though different paths, not twice as in this situation. Nikos