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Subject: Re: ipfw: skipto changing value of where I want to skipto?
In-Reply-To: <20010919102406.U30377-100000@mail1.hub.org> from "Marc G. Fournier"
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> 
> psychopompus# ipfw add 00661 skipto 00708 ip from any to 136.0.0.0/5
> 00661 skipto 56 ip from any to 136.0.0.0/5
> 
> why is the 00708 changing to 56? :(

because the leading 0's force strtol to believe that the number is
octal, then the trailing 8 is considered illegal in the
basis so the number is read as 0070 (octal) which is 56 decimal.

	cheers
	luigi


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