not in topic - weird IP address number.

2000-11-10 Thread Minh Vu
Do anyone saw this number as IP before? 0100.10.41.0142   Sure, you can ping that number which will convert to IP address: 64.10.41.98     is that the IPv6 IP address ?   Thanks

Re: not in topic - weird IP address number.

2000-11-10 Thread Neil Schneider
No, not IPv6, just an regular IPv4 address written partially in hexidecimal.  Works on NT/W2K, don't know about other platforms.   Neil Schneider     ""Minh Vu"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 014501c04b37$8fc4d5a0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:014501c04b37$8fc4d5a0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...

Re: not in topic - weird IP address number.

2000-11-10 Thread Minh Vu
how is it calculate ?  It works with win9x too.   Thanks "Neil Schneider" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 8uhbqb$ijq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:8uhbqb$ijq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... No, not IPv6, just an regular IPv4 address written partially in hexidecimal.  Works on NT/W2K, don't know

Re: not in topic - weird IP address number.

2000-11-10 Thread Gareth Hinton
Tried a few other IP addresses out and seems to be in base 8. Only the 3 LSB can be used (as with 4 bits the MSB would be units of 512). In fact I'm probably wrong in calling them MSB LSB as its not binary so not a Bit. In fact if you ping 10.020.030.040 you still g

Re: not in topic - weird IP address number.

2000-11-10 Thread Priscilla Oppenheimer
AGNetTools lets you ping and traceroute in octal also. Very weird.. &;-) Priscilla At 01:23 AM 11/11/00, Gareth Hinton wrote: >Tried a few other IP addresses out and seems to be in base 8. Only the 3 LSB >can be used (as with 4 bits the MSB would be units of 512). In fact I'm >probably wrong