On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Fox, Michael wrote: > Basically if we enter in a rule like so; (notice leading 0's 007.0xx.0/24) [..] works: > springer:~# iptables -A mule -p tcp --dport 4661 -s 202.007.077.0/24 -j > ACCEPT error: > springer:~# iptables -A mule -p tcp --dport 4661 -s 202.007.078.0/24 -j > ACCEPT > iptables v1.2.8: host/network `202.007.078.0' not found > Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information. [..] > Why does the first few work (with leading 0's, and then the next few fail) > it would appear some code in iptables evaluating the command line only works > upto a certain range or values) Leading zero means "octal instead of decimal" and in octal notation there is no digit "8", it only goes from 0 to 7 your "077" is 63 decimal. c'ya sven -- The Internet treats censorship as a routing problem, and routes around it. (John Gilmore on http://www.cygnus.com/~gnu/)
