Re: HELP ! Why my dev->hard_start_xmit get called three times for one ping packet?

From: Roland Dreier
Date: Wed Apr 14 2004 - 21:16:22 EST


ZI> After I configure the ethernet interface(it's a PCI card
ZI> plugged in my debian PC), I run command ' ping -c 1
ZI> 192.168.0.100', (the interface is configured with IP address
ZI> 192.168.0.35), I used smartbit to look at the wire and found 3
ZI> ping packets. From the debugging info, I can see
ZI> dev->hard_start_xmit is called three times, the DMA engine
ZI> seems to be acting correctly, and each time hard_start_xmit is
ZI> invoked the skb address is different. How can this happen?

Are any of the 3 packets actually arp packets?

- Roland
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