Hello Deon,

 DG> Notice that packet d28ac803.pkt was used twice, and went into the same
 DG> archive d28ac80a.su0 for the same node 2/116. I'm assuming the second
 DG> pkt file overwrote the first one.

Yes, that would explain why we only saw the test bot's reply and not the
original.

 DG> hpt is invoked from a script that calls "hpt toss", then "hpt scan".

 DG> Why is the same packet number between two different runs?

That's the question. AFAIK I have seen all original posts and bot replies
except one yesterday, I only saw the bot reply. Today I saw another pair, the
origianl test message and the bot reply.

Why did that happen and does it happen only sometimes?

Perhaps it is a problem that this all happened in the same second in this case
as Wilfred sugested.

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

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