2011/2/6 Caldarale, Charles R <chuck.caldar...@unisys.com>: > >> We have a simpleTCP cluster built between 2 Tomcat 6.0.18 nodes > > It would be beneficial for you to move up to a newer level - that one is over > 2.5 years old, and lots and lots of fixes have gone in since then. > >> when we use another IP like 172.x.x.x then we see negative numbers >> being displayed on the log. > >> Not sure what is causing this. Can anybody tell me >> why this is happening? > > Because the IP address is kept in a byte array, and bytes, by definition, are > signed. Unless explicit action is taken to remove the sign extension, any > values larger than 127 will be displayed as negative. > > It appears to be fixed in Tomcat 7.0.8, and possibly sometime before that, > but not in any 6.0 level. You're welcome to dig through the code changes to > find out exactly when the fix was created.
AFAIK, that was backported to TC6 more than a year ago, http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=892521 Best regards, Konstantin Kolinko --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
