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| author | Jiri Popelka <jpopelka@redhat.com> | 2012-01-13 15:50:54 +0100 |
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| committer | Bernd Eckenfels <bernd@eckenfels.net> | 2012-01-13 20:01:49 +0000 |
| commit | a4cbb7714d293562caf9edad49e46913bff8e173 (patch) | |
| tree | 09868dacdb5adab20a9202f110d86211cb346e4f | |
| parent | cb81887c39eb4f1319a17378ccad3203d3f60cf8 (diff) | |
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ifconfig(8): note about supported format for IPv4 addresses (RHBZ#176661)
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diff --git a/man/en_US/ifconfig.8 b/man/en_US/ifconfig.8 index aaa8ff8..4461fb6 100644 --- a/man/en_US/ifconfig.8 +++ b/man/en_US/ifconfig.8 @@ -39,6 +39,11 @@ supported address families include (Novell IPX) and .B netrom (AMPR Packet radio). +All numbers supplied as parts in IPv4 dotted decimal notation may be decimal, +octal, or hexadecimal, as specified in the ISO C standard (that is, a leading 0x +or 0X implies hexadecimal; otherwise, a leading '0' implies octal; otherwise, +the number is interpreted as decimal). Use of hexadecimal and octal numbers +is not RFC-compliant and therefore its use is discouraged. .SH OPTIONS .TP .B -a |