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From: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com>
To: Alex <xela@battleface.com>
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On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 05:58:08PM -0500, Alex wrote:
> First, I know very little about networking, especially performance 
> turning. I would really like to learn more but don't know where/how to 
> start effectively.

You're seeing icmp rate-limiting.  Don't worry about it.

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