Re: [Xen-devel] peth1: received packet with own address as source address

[Arnd Schmitter <arnd_xen@xxxxxxxx>]

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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