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Subject: Re: can't change IP
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 19:11:15 -0400
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Subject: Re: can't change IP


> here is some additional information. I did a reinstall and changed which
> card is the one i configure. It is now a linksys card de0. The error is
> the same  no matter which card I use.
>
> here are my dmesg and rc.conf
>
> I can't figure out why the first octet is 052. in dmesg.

[ snip ]

> de0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> inet 52.220.255.140 netmask 0xfffff000 broadcast 52.220.255.255
> inet6 fe80::240:5ff:fe36:39c7%de0 prefixlen 64 tentative scopeid 0x2
> ether 00:40:05:36:39:c7
> media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT/UTP)
> status: active

[ snip ]

> ifconfig_de0="inet 064.220.255.140  netmask 255.255.240.000"

Here's your problem.  When you specify a number with a leading 0, the system
treats it as an octal number.  64 decimal = 52 octal.  If you remove the
leading 0, the computer should treat it as 64.

In addition, there's no reason to pad all of the components of your IP
addresses to 3 digits (I see 064 and 000 above.  Use 64 and 0 instead.)

--
Matt Emmerton


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