The leading zero specifies that the number following is octal. This is expected behavior, and you will find that Solaris, FreeBSD, and Solaris all act exactly the same.
Sacha
--On Friday, April 16, 2004 15:14:24 +0200 Davide Del Vecchio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
....Hi list, I`m sorry for the OT, Anyone has a good explaination for this ? Windows XP Professional SP1
C:\>ping 010.010.010.010 Esecuzione di Ping 010.010.010.010 [8.8.8.8] con 32 byte di dati: Control-C ^C C:\> Obviously if you try the same thing on a *NIX or IOS the "0" is just ignored. It seems like the 0 character implies a modification in the IP field.. It`s not a bug of the "ping" command, because it "works" on telnet, ftp... d.
--- Sacha J. Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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