[PLUG] Re: Linux 7.2 Printer Problem Solved

Wil Cooley wcooley at nakedape.cc
Fri Mar 22 06:48:46 UTC 2002


Also Sprach Michael Rasmussen <rasmussenm at columbiafunds.com> on Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 08:11:47AM PST
> 
> The address ending in .081 is valid. I have a RedHat 7.2 system 
> here that I configured with 10.1.111.001 and it booted just fine.
> Just to be sane about this I changed the config to match yours
> and ... it failed.
> 
> Error Messages:
> 
>   [root at dex root]# /etc/init.d/network restart
>   Shutting down interface eth0:                              [  OK  ]
>   Setting network parameters:                                [  OK  ]
>   Bringing up interface lo:                                  [  OK  ]
>   Bringing up interface eth0:  ipcalc: bad ip address: 192.168.200.082
>   arping: unknown host 192.168.200.082
>   Error, some other host already uses address 192.168.200.082.
>                                                            [FAILED]
> 
> OK, try it manually:
>   [root at dex root]# ifconfig eth0 192.168.200.081 netmask 255.255.0.0
>   192.168.200.081: Unknown host
>   ifconfig: `--help' gives usage information.
> 
> 
> Yet, a `ifconfig eth0 192.168.200.81 netmask 255.255.0.0` works fine.
> 
> I do believe you have stumbled across a bug.  Congratulations! :)

Hm, interesting.  I suspect it's an error in the IP address parser in
ifconfig; 'ip addr add 192.168.200.081 dev eth0' works just fine.  In
fact, as I suspected, 'ip addr add 192.168.200.00000000000000000081
dev eth0' works fine also.  (Except I just caused Zebra to go nuts
with my OSPF routing tables.)

Wil
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