Re: wierd mtrace values

[Bill Fenner <]

In message <96Aug26.002755pdt.177517@localhost> I wrote:
>  jhawk points out that duplicates are occurring on the subnet that
>upper-gw.sunet.se shares with lower-gw.sunet.se, mbone.sunet.se,
>192.36.148.195 and stockholm.mbone.ebone.net.

I did a long-running mtrace, and discovered that the duplicates do stop
occasionally.  They stopped for about 100 seconds at one point, and
then for ~30 seconds about 140 seconds later (and then at the end of
this period there were triplicates for a short time, then it went back
to duplicates).  I didn't get enough data to make any kind of
periodicity claims, but anyone who is interested can run "mtrace -l" to
a source that's generating traffic and watch for -N/N and then 0/N.

  Bill