I would say it's some sort of artifact of the VMWre networking stack. Do you have any personall firewall install on the host and/or the host?
Have a nice day GV ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jack Jackson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 2:20 PM Subject: [Winpcap-users] Large number of duplicate messages >I just installed WinPcap 4.1 beta 5 on a Win 2008 Server 64-bit virtual > machine (running on VMWare Server 2). > > Wireshark (1.2.1) shows a large number of duplicate copies of many (but > not > all) messages. For example, if I ping the virtual machine from another > machine, I see about 126 ping requests and replies for each ping request > sent. ARP messages do not appear to be duplicated, but most others are > (all TCP as far as I can tell, but few if any UDP). Dumpcap shows the > same > number of messages as Wireshark. > > If I install WinPcap 4.1 beta 5 on the host Win 2008 64-bit machine and do > the same ping as above, I see much fewer duplicates, 2-3. > > Any idea what is happening? Is this some artifact of the VMWare network > drivers? > > _______________________________________________ > Winpcap-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.winpcap.org/mailman/listinfo/winpcap-users _______________________________________________ Winpcap-users mailing list [email protected] https://www.winpcap.org/mailman/listinfo/winpcap-users
