Subject: Re: Question regarding mrouted's pruning - PLEASE RESPOND

From: [email-masked] (Sangeeta Mukherjee)
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 15:41:26 -0800

> From [email-masked] Wed Jan  8 15:40:08 1997
> To: sangeeta.mukherjee@Eng (Sangeeta Mukherjee)
> cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
> Subject: Re: Question regarding mrouted's pruning - PLEASE RESPOND 
> Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 15:39:44 PST
> From: Bill Fenner <[email-masked]>
> 
> Sangeeta,
> 
> >Jan  8 13:13:19 MACHINEA mrouted[25546]: warning - duplicate prune received on
> >   vif 8 for
> >(129.146.55.0 224.146.200.31)/496 old timer:
> 
> You left off the end of the warning message.  What did it print as the
> old timer?
> 
> I just made these debug instead of warning, since it doesn't actually
> hurt anything (it's just unusual).  If the old timer is usually low, then
> it's likely that there's just clock skew between the two systems (because
> of mrouted's timer mechanism, clock skew is likely on a high-fanout box).
> If the old timer is the same as the new timer (the number after the /),
> then it's likely a layer 2 problem that is duplicating packets.
> 
>   Bill
> 

The complete message is:

Jan  8 13:08:08 jurassic mrouted[25546]: warning - duplicate prune received on vif 8 from 129.146.86.129 for (129.146.200.0 224.2.127.254)/514 old timer: 125 cur gm: 108