Re: ipfw: skipto changing value of where I want to skipto?

[Luigi Rizzo]

> 
> psychopompus# ipfw add 00661 skipto 00708 ip from any to 136.0.0.0/5
> 00661 skipto 56 ip from any to 136.0.0.0/5
> 
> why is the 00708 changing to 56? :(

because the leading 0's force strtol to believe that the number is
octal, then the trailing 8 is considered illegal in the
basis so the number is read as 0070 (octal) which is 56 decimal.

        cheers
        luigi


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