> On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 21:26, michael@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > The leading 0's are interpreted as indicating an octal number, rather > than decimal. (This means your 202.007.077.0 that was accepted, if you > list the rule back, will show 202.7.63.0/24 being ACCEPTed) I don't see > it documented anywhere as behaving this way, but that's clearly what is > happening. 077=63, 0100=64, 078=Undefined, like trying to interpret > 0x1A (the 'x' indicates hexadecimal) in decimal - the 'A' has no > meaning, just like any digit 8 or higher has no meaning in octal. Thanks very much for that. I didn't think it could be seeing it as a octal number. Explains a lot now. Thanks once more
