Sunday, August 31, 2025

Martian 0.0.0.0 Packets identified ESP8266 Tasmota

 Hi,

recently i stumbled over a tremendous amount of Log entries:

kernel: IPv4: martian destination 0.0.0.0 from XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX , dev eth0


I tracked the Ip down to a tasmota esp8266 device. Alle Networ settings were correct. However, the Syslog  logging was switched to something > 0 and no host was given. 
So every message went to 0.0.0.0 I suppose.

Switched logging to 0 and martian packets were gone.


The following debugging might help if this does not solve your issue:
tcpdump -i eth0 host XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX

The following was logged: IP XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX.55246 > 0.0.0.0.syslog: SYSLOG local0.info