Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 00:24:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: guido@gvr.org (Guido van Rooij) Cc: des@ofug.org (Dag-Erling Smorgrav), dchulhan@uwi.tt (Dale Chulhan - Home), chat@FreeBSD.ORG (chat@FreeBSD.ORG), TheTechies@onelist.com (My List) Subject: Re: Reserved IP Addresses Message-ID: <200102160024.RAA10935@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <20010215150301.B55420@gvr.gvr.org> from "Guido van Rooij" at Feb 15, 2001 03:03:01 PM
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> > > Where can I get a list of reserved IP Addresses and WHY they are > > > reserved? > > > > RFC1918 <URL:http://www.ofug.org/rfc/rfc1918.txt>. To make a long > > story short, 10.0.0.0/8, 192.168.0.0/16 and 172.16.0.0/12 are reserved > > for use on private networks that are either not connected to the > > Internet, or connected through a non-forwarding or masquerading > > firewall. > > > > See also: > http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-manning-dsua-06.txt Rats! You beat me! But you missed two! draft-ietf-zeroconf-ipv4-linklocal-01.txt draft-perkins-manet-autoconf-00.txt These take 169.254/16; this is the IPv4 stateless autoconfiguration that Windows uses, if you plug a number of Windows boxes together on a network without a DHCP server. The network addresses are reserved as "link.local". I realize that neither is ratified to RFC status, but Windows already uses it, so there's no reason to shoot yourself in the foot unnecesarily. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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