Ethereal-dev: [ethereal-dev] Bug report: IP-address 0.0.0.0 is interpreted as a certain host

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From: "Johannes Hennecke" <Johannes.Hennecke@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 17:33:01 +0100

Hello,

I use Ethereal with Windows 98 and have traced a frame which contains an
IP-address 0.0.0.0. This IP-address is interpreted as owned by the Windows 98
host and the frame display says that the frame is send from WIN98_SZPC to
WIN98_SZPC.

Frame 8 (70 on wire, 70 captured)
    Arrival Time: Jun  8, 2000 19:08:05.4089
    Time delta from previous packet: 0.003647 seconds
    Frame Number: 8
    Packet Length: 70 bytes
    Capture Length: 70 bytes
Ethernet II
    Destination: 00:a0:24:5d:0e:c9 (00:a0:24:5d:0e:c9)
    Source: 00:a0:57:03:b7:d7 (00:a0:57:03:b7:d7)
    Type: IP (0x0800)
Internet Protocol
    Version: 4
    Header length: 20 bytes
    Differentiated Services Field: 0x00 (DSCP 0x00: Default)
        0000 00.. = Differentiated Services Codepoint: Default (0x00)
        .... ..00 = Currently Unused: 0
    Total Length: 56
    Identification: 0x04b5
    Flags: 0x00
        .0.. = Don't fragment: Not set
        ..0. = More fragments: Not set
    Fragment offset: 0
    Time to live: 60
    Protocol: ICMP (0x01)
    Header checksum: 0x6f93 (correct)
    Source: WIN98_SZPC (0.0.0.0) <-------------------------- Look here!
    Destination: WIN98_SZPC (10.0.0.126)
Internet Control Message Protocol
    Type: 11 (Time-to-live exceeded)
    Code: 0 (TTL equals 0 during transit)
    Checksum: 0xf4ff
    Data (28 bytes)

   0  4500 005c 9b0c 0000 0101 4d6f 0a00 007e   E..\......Mo...~
  10  2061 a647 0800 e1ff 0100 1500              a.G........

With kind regards


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