[Gllug] Weird network behaviour

[Rich Walker]

John Winters <john at sinodun.org.uk> writes:

> I have seen symptoms like that in the past for various reasons.  One
> vague recollection - if two machines think they have the same IP address
> you can end up with ARP wars and half your packets going to the wrong
> place.  The regular pings then keep setting the ARP cache back to your
> address and the data flows.

That would fit the "every 30-45 seconds a burst of data turns up" that
was going on. (Mind you, it's not the only thing that would fit that...)

cheers, Rich.

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