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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 |