Received packet with own address as source address

Is it me, or does there seem to be a few firewall related problems around at the moment? There are posts about martian packets, arps floods and sporadic WAN connections. They all seem to be related to RHEL based distributions. NS, ClearOS, RHEL.

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They’re probably not related, but it does seem strange how many firewall problems there seems to be at the moment.

Bob