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Xylen <mctupper@holly.colostate.edu> wrote:
: When I set up my Redhat 6.0, I entered my IP addy as xxx.xxx.xxx.037
: Note the '7' on the end. After installation was complete, my computer

The problem is the leading 0.  I chewed out the housing department
about this once, something like two or three years ago... But they
don't listen to me.  Maybe cuz I rant too much.  :)

To be jaunty, and because I was annoyed at Housing Networks already,
I thought I'd be jaunty and type in the IP address EXACTLY as it was
typed on the little form.  I got the same effect you saw.

Anyway, the scanf thingy in C will consider any number starting with
a 0 to be in octal.  Sooo, 037 is octal comes out to... something else
in decimal.  If you wanted to be especially jaunty, you could convert
it to hex, and put 0x in front of the numbers...

Alternatly, you can also convert the whole 4x8 ip string into a 32bit
word.  Check out samspade.[org|com|???] for more stupid tricks...

The odd thing is that my IP address was .037 when I was in the halls,
too.... Coincidence?  Nah.  Prolly not.

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