Bug 116328
| Summary: | /bin/ipcalc --prefix 203.3.43.087 255.255.255.224 ipcalc: bad ip address 203.3.43.087 | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Geoff Horner <geoffrey.horner> |
| Component: | initscripts | Assignee: | Bill Nottingham <notting> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | rvokal |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2004-02-20 03:34:23 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Octets of the form '0xx' are interpreted as octal, as the standard specifies. Hence, in an octal number, you can't have the digit 8. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Description of problem: This fails :- /bin/ipcalc --prefix 203.3.43.087 255.255.255.224 responding with :- ipcalc: bad ip address 203.3.43.087 This works :- /bin/ipcalc --prefix 203.3.43.87 255.255.255.224 response :- PREFIX=27 Other addresses with a leading 0 in the 4th octet don't fail eg :- /bin/ipcalc --prefix 203.3.43.055 255.255.255.224 works. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): initscripts-7.14-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1./bin/ipcalc --prefix 203.3.43.087 255.255.255.224 2. 3. Actual Results: ipcalc: bad ip address 203.3.43.087 Expected Results: PREFIX=27 Additional info: This problem caused probelms with redhat-config-network where I couldn't activate an ethernet device.