Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 21:56:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jooji@webnology.com (Jasper O'Malley) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, wghicks@bellsouth.net, jcwells@u.washington.edu, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lets Endorse KDE Was: some slashdot thread Message-ID: <199902022156.OAA15111@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.02.9902021347530.27333-100000@mercury.webnology.com> from "Jasper O'Malley" at Feb 2, 99 01:58:34 pm
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> > Dare I say that it should include a DHCP client that defaults it to > > a random address on the 10 net if it doesn't get a response, and > > a GUI TCP settings configurator for when neither of those work... > > Actually, DHCP clients that can't get an address are supposed to use an > address in the 169.254/16 block, according to the IETF Internet Draft > "Automatically Choosing an IP Address in an Ad-Hoc IPv4 Network" (it's at > http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-dhc-ipv4-autoconfig-03.txt) > While it's not an RFC, IANA's already set aside the address space, > and several manufacturers (including M$) have implemented it. > > Then again, the implementation is actually up to the DHCP client coders, > so I'll check the ISC DHCP mailing list archives about that. It's what Windows 98 does. So if you are throwing together an ad-hoc network with Windows 98 clients, you will use 10. 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 messagehelp
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