why am i getting packets here...?

hello,
I added new packet type with ETH_P_NEW in linux kernel and write packet
handler routine and then i check recevied IP packets source IP in
new_rcv() and found most of them are 0.0.0.0 on Redhat 9.
can anybody help me why this packet handler function is getting those
packets? Theres no tcpdump or ethereal i am running and also NIC is not
in promisc mode.

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> hello,
> I added new packet type with ETH_P_NEW in linux kernel and write packet
> handler routine and then i check recevied IP packets source IP in
> new_rcv() and found most of them are 0.0.0.0 on Redhat 9.
> can anybody help me why this packet handler function is getting those
> packets? Theres no tcpdump or ethereal i am running and also NIC is not
> in promisc mode.

These are ARP broadcasts normally sent by DHCP clients.


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