On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 04:06:41PM +0100, Peter Clapham wrote:
> Another alternative would be to use inet_pton which rejects octal ?
that has been discussed to some extend, the problem is it will reject some
currently used valid addresses and therefore might break bootup of existing
installations,
Martín Ferrari wrote:
Hi Peter,
On 5/29/07, Peter Clapham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Error appears to be due to ifconfig taking 08 as an invalid octal value
rather than a binary with leading 0. Error also affects ifup/ifdown if
/etc/network/interfaces has similar entries. Values 01->07 accepte
Hi Peter,
On 5/29/07, Peter Clapham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Error appears to be due to ifconfig taking 08 as an invalid octal value
rather than a binary with leading 0. Error also affects ifup/ifdown if
/etc/network/interfaces has similar entries. Values 01->07 accepted as
they are valid oct
Package: Net-tools
Version: 1.6-10>
ifconfig eth1 172.10.10.08 netmask 255.255.255.255
172.10.10.08: Unknown host
ifconfig `--help' gives usage information.
Error appears to be due to ifconfig taking 08 as an invalid octal value
rather than a binary with leading 0. Error also affects ifup/ifdo
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