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From: Arnd Schmitter <arnd_xen@yahoo.de>
Subject: Re: peth1: received packet with own address as source
	address
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 20:50:31 +0200
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David F Barrera wrote:
> I am seeing a series of messages (below):
>
> peth1: received packet with  own address as source address
> peth1: received packet with  own address as source address
> peth1: received packet with  own address as source address
> peth1: received packet with  own address as source address
> peth1: received packet with  own address as source address
> peth1: received packet with  own address as source address
> peth1: received packet with  own address as source address
> peth1: received packet with  own address as source address
> peth1: received packet with  own address as source address
> peth1: received packet with  own address as source address
>
> Is this something that I should care about? I don't see an obvious
> impact to the machine. 
>
>   

This means normaly two things: Packets you send out are returning or 
there is another PC with the same address.
The Linuxkernel drops this packets as he think its a knd of address 
spoofing.
If all networking is working fine you will only have a minimal impact on 
performance. But it could indicate that something with your network 
configuration is wrong

Arnd

	

	
		
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