In article <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107172106560.20876-100000@alcazar.savage.za.org> you wrote: > RedHat, on Kernel 2.4.4: > [root@alcazar /root]# ping 001.001.001.002 > PING 001.001.001.002 (1.1.1.2) from 196.7.202.111 : 56(84) bytes of data. > From 207.45.199.201: Destination Host Unreachable > From 207.45.199.201: Destination Host Unreachable > --- 001.001.001.002 ping statistics --- > 6 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, +2 errors, 100% packet loss > My FreeBSD boxes seems to work fine however - the program below also > reports the correct IP on my FreeBSD machines, wrong on the Linux ones. you need to test it with actual ocal numbers: 010 not 001 Greetings Bernd - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org