Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] Sent packets captured twice

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From: Harry J Moyes <harry.moyes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 11:55:17 +0100
All

Attached is the summary printout of a standard Windows ping exchange 
between a Windows XP client and a Linux server.
The capture is recorded on the client issuing the ping.

The apparent doubling of all outgoing packets is the issue.

I suspect that the issue is related to fire walling on the client, but 
would appreciate any assistance that the Ethereal team can offer.

This irritating feature is a fairly recent innovation and affects all our 
standard build clients. 

No.     Time        Source                Destination           Protocol 
Info
      1 0.000000    156.71.13.234         Broadcast             ARP Who 
has 156.71.12.4?  Tell 156.71.13.234
      2 0.000035    156.71.13.234         Broadcast             ARP Who 
has 156.71.12.4?  Tell 156.71.13.234
      3 0.000366    156.71.12.4           156.71.13.234         ARP 
156.71.12.4 is at 00:b0:d0:65:e6:96
      4 0.000382    156.71.13.234         156.71.12.4           ICMP Echo 
(ping) request 
      5 0.000397    156.71.13.234         156.71.12.4           ICMP Echo 
(ping) request 
      6 0.000588    156.71.12.4           156.71.13.234         ICMP Echo 
(ping) reply 
      7 1.001438    156.71.13.234         156.71.12.4           ICMP Echo 
(ping) request 
      8 1.001468    156.71.13.234         156.71.12.4           ICMP Echo 
(ping) request 
      9 1.001825    156.71.12.4           156.71.13.234         ICMP Echo 
(ping) reply 
     10 2.002606    156.71.13.234         156.71.12.4           ICMP Echo 
(ping) request 
     11 2.002637    156.71.13.234         156.71.12.4           ICMP Echo 
(ping) request 
     12 2.002820    156.71.12.4           156.71.13.234         ICMP Echo 
(ping) reply 
     13 3.002792    156.71.13.234         156.71.12.4           ICMP Echo 
(ping) request 
     14 3.002824    156.71.13.234         156.71.12.4           ICMP Echo 
(ping) request 
     15 3.003091    156.71.12.4           156.71.13.234         ICMP Echo 
(ping) reply 


The issue occurs with all versions of Ethereal that we have tried on these 
systems recently and with both the production and latest release of 
WinPcap.

>From the capturing client:-
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Version 0.10.11 (C) 1998-2005 Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Compiled with GTK+ 2.4.14, with GLib 2.4.7, with WinPcap (version 
unknown),
with libz 1.2.2, with libpcre 4.4, with Net-SNMP 5.1.2, with ADNS.

Running with WinPcap (3.0) on Windows XP Service Pack 1, build 2600.

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I suspect that though the client is not admitting to SP2 that large 
numbers of fixes from that release are incorporated, and harbour dark 
suspicions that one of these is the cause of the problem. 

Harry Moyes