Re: peth1: received packet with own address as source address

[Arnd Schmitter <arnd_xen@yahoo.de>]

David F Barrera wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 20:50 +0200, Arnd Schmitter wrote:
>   
>> David F Barrera wrote:
>>     
>>> 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, thanks for your response. My network configuration appears to be
> OK; it is simple, one NIC and its IP address, and everything seems to be
> working well. Also, there are no two machines with the same address. So,
> I am wondering if this is a problem with Xen. I have opened up a
> bugzilla report, as I would like to have a definitive answer as to
> whether this is a bug or a network configuration issue.
>
> http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=339
>   

Only one NIC and peth1 ??

Take a look at your ifconfig output. Maybe there are two 
Virtual-Interfaces witch the same MAC.

Arnd


	

	
		
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