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/ifdown if /etc/network/interfaces has similar entries. Values 01->07 accepted as they are valid octal units.
Documentation Re: use of net-tools potential octal values is absent and hence such errors are both confusing and opaque. Either the ip should have been recognised as being in non-octal format and accepted as expected or provide a sensible error & documentation.
Many thanks Peter Clapham The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
