[PLUG] Re: Linux 7.2 Printer Problem Solved

Russ Johnson russj at dimstar.net
Thu Mar 21 05:23:50 UTC 2002


I don't know of any reason you would want to lead an octet with zeros.

Just use the numbers, 192.168.200.81.

Nothing says they have to be three digits.

At 08:00 PM 3/20/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>I don't know why that did not work, one of my Linux boxes is 192.168.0.011.
>The .001 is usually reserved by convention for a server (?), but no reason
>why you could not use it.  I used it once for a Linux ws and it worked fine.
>Rick Konold
>Linux Advocate
>
>On Wednesday 20 March 2002 19:42, you hammered the keyboard to write:
> > So far so good. Everything changed over to addresses in the 192 range.
> >
> > I changed the HP Printer JetDirect Card to 192.168.200.200 with no problem.
> > I changed a Windows 98 computer to 192.168.200.006 with no visible problem.
> > Then I changed the Red Hat 7.2 computer to 192.168.200.081 and upon reboot
> > it said the IP address was invalid.  I then changed it to 192.168.200.181
> > and it seemed to work fine.
> >
> > Now my questions:  Is an IP address ending in .081, or .001 for that matter
> > invalid?

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