From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Feb 2 14:28:50 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA16522 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:28:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mercury.webnology.com (mercury.webnology.com [209.155.51.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA16509 for ; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:28:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jooji@webnology.com) Received: from localhost (jooji@localhost) by mercury.webnology.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with SMTP id QAA29893; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 16:28:50 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 16:28:50 -0600 (CST) From: "Jasper O'Malley" To: Terry Lambert cc: wghicks@bellsouth.net, jcwells@u.washington.edu, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lets Endorse KDE Was: some slashdot thread In-Reply-To: <199902022156.OAA15111@usr08.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > It's what Windows 98 does. What is what Windows 98 does? AFAIK, Windows 98 uses the 169.254.X.X addresses. Or at least it did yesterday, when someone on the office LAN fired up a new Win98 box whose NIC's Ethernet address I hadn't added to my DHCP server's configuration file yet. Cheers, Mick The Reverend Jasper P. O'Malley dotdot:jooji@webnology.com Systems Administrator ringring:asktheadmiral Webnology, LLC woowoo:http://www.webnology.com/~jooji To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message