When doing traceroute, for each hop, the router sends 3 probes. As u have 2 equal paths to the destination, loadbalancing between equal cost path occurs, so first probe is sent to the first path, the second to the second path, and the third to the first path (if process swicthed).
-- Stephane LITKOWSKI Student in a French computer science school EPITA Telecom & Network specialization (Paris, FRANCE) CCNA + CCNP EMail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ""Robert D. Cluett"" a icrit dans le message de news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > All, any idea why this IP 172.26.1.13, shows twice? > > Kennedy-2502#traceroute 192.168.1.103 > > Type escape sequence to abort. > Tracing the route to 192.168.1.103 > > 1 172.26.1.13 20 msec > 172.26.1.2 20 msec > 172.26.1.13 20 msec > 2 172.26.1.6 36 msec > 172.26.1.9 40 msec * Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=51632&t=51622 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]