[issue37542] UDP sendto() sends duplicate packets

[Andy Papageorgiou]

New submission from Andy Papageorgiou <andy.papageorgiou at gmail.com>:

Wireshark reports two identical back to back packets sent for each sendto(), timing between packets is between 2 and 10us.

Note this is on a point to point ethernet (just 1 cable, no switches, routers or anything else in between) to an embedded platform (Zynq ARM) from an intel i7 Window 10 laptop from 2018. The python code is running on the laptop.

python code:
with socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM) as s:
    s.bind(('', 5704))
    while(more_to_send == TRUE)
        <code to populate bytes_to_send>
        s.sendto(bytes_to_send, (HOST, UDP_PORT))
        data = s.recv(1024)

Wireshark log.
43204	80.146000	192.168.1.20	192.168.1.10	UDP	566	5704 → 5604 Len=524 (payload)
43205	80.146003	192.168.1.20	192.168.1.10	UDP	566	5704 → 5604 Len=524 (duplicate at payload time + 3us)
43206	80.149112	192.168.1.10	192.168.1.20	UDP	48	5604 → 5704 Len=6 (ack)
43207	80.149306	192.168.1.20	192.168.1.10	UDP	566	5704 → 5604 Len=524 (payload)
43208	80.149311	192.168.1.20	192.168.1.10	UDP	566	5704 → 5604 Len=524 (duplicate at payload time +5us)

I am suspicious this is an artefact of the point to point link.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 347614
nosy: Andy Papageorgiou
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: UDP sendto() sends duplicate packets
versions: Python 3.7

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