Nondeterministic output

[George Jones]

The following command produces different output:

  cat foo.pcap | argus -U 64 -r - -w /tmp/foo.ar
  cat foo.pcap | argus -U 64 -r - -w /tmp/bar.ar

cksum(1) shows the content differs (but byte count is the same).

More disturbing is different numbers of records output from identical runs
on the same input, etc.

  cat foo.pcap | argus -U 64 -r - -w - | racluster -r - -w - | ra -r - | tee
/tmp/1.out
  cat foo.pcap | argus -U 64 -r - -w - | racluster -r - -w - | ra -r - | tee
/tmp/2.out

results in slightly different output.  Sometimes there are slight
differences in the flgs (packet ordering, I think),
but in a file of several thousand records, I'm getting 6 or so additional
records in one output file vs the other.

Confused,
---George Jones
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