From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Feb 2 13:57:50 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA10687 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 13:57:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA10655 for ; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 13:57:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr08.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA29554; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:57:05 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd029475; Tue Feb 2 14:56:58 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA15111; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:56:57 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199902022156.OAA15111@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Lets Endorse KDE Was: some slashdot thread To: jooji@webnology.com (Jasper O'Malley) Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 21:56:57 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, wghicks@bellsouth.net, jcwells@u.washington.edu, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Jasper O'Malley" at Feb 2, 99 01:58:34 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > 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 message