Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] RTP Analysis and duplicated packets(Mirroring) problem

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From: "Anders Broman" <a.broman@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 20:47:23 +0200
>>Anders Broman (AL/EAB) wrote: 
>>When capturing off a mirroring port every second packet is often a
duplicate. 
>>
>>Every second packet? You should definitely check your switch configuration
then!
>>This causes problems for the RTPanalysis.
>>Would it be safe to not count packets with the same sequence number as the
previous packet in a stream ? or if the packet
>>arrives within a to short time ? or a combination ? should such a feature
be configurable ?
>
>Not by default, please, as otherwise you wouldn't be able to identify if
the
>parties in questions *themselves* send duplicate packets.
>
>
>+Thomas
Perhaps the packets could be reported as duplicates and not included in any
statistics, leaving it up to the user to determine
the reason for duplicates ? 
Best regards
Anders