Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal shows this machine name for IP 0.0.0.0

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From: Jack Jackson <jack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 12:47:59 -0800
Running Ethereal 0.8.19 on Win2K.
Packets with a source IP address of 0.0.0.0 (primarily DHCP requests) show in the Source column the name of the machine on which Ethereal is running rather than the Ethernet address of the sending machine. 

Is there any way to change this?  Is this a bug?

Jack Jackson