non operational question related to IP

Thu Dec 9 22:30:38 UTC 2010

Mostly the input is done by a library implementing the Posix
version of fprintf or fscanf.

  10 = 10,  0xa, 012
 010 =  8,  0x8, 010
0x10 = 16, 0x10, 020

and there are others. google( fscanf )

Mostly everything understands fscanf syntax.

Cheers
Peter

Greg Whynott wrote:
> i was pinging a host from a windows machine and made a typo which seemed harmless.  the end result was it interpreted my input differently than what I had intended.   thinking this was a m$ issue I quickly took the opportunity to poke fun at windows as the senior m$ admin was near by.
> 
> "look at how brain dead this os is,  it can't even do simple math!"
> 
> He is now looking at my screen scratching his head…..
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> "watch,  i'll open a shell on os x and show you how it can add 0 +10"
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> I open a shell on os x,  same behavior as windows.
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> " ok so apple is brain dead too,  watch,  it'll work on linux!"
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> same deal…
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> long story short,  it does work as expected on all our hardware routing gear.    still not sure what is happening here…
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> osx-gwhynott:~ gwhynott$ ping 10.010.10.1
> PING 10.010.10.1 (10.8.10.1): 56 data bytes
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> gwhynott at ops:~$ ping 10.010.10.1
> PING 10.010.10.1 (10.8.10.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
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> CORE1>ping 10.010.10.1
> Type escape sequence to abort.
> Sending 5, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 10.10.10.1, timeout is 2 seconds:
> !!!!!
> 
> 
> anyone happen to know how the OS's are interpreting the 010?   doesn't appear work out in base[2-10] (1010,101,22,20,14,13,12,11,10,A)
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> thanks!
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> greg
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