Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 03:24:46 +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: DHCP Autoconfig (Was: Lets Endorse KDE) Message-ID: <199902030324.UAA04247@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.02.9902021724330.31014-100000@mercury.webnology.com> from "Jasper O'Malley" at Feb 2, 99 05:31:19 pm
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> > This would make sense, in that the statistical protection is 256 > > times better than the 169.254.x.x net. > > If I'm not mistaken, the autoconfiguration process checks the address it > picks before it sticks with it. From the IETF Internet Draft on the > subject: > > Once a DHCP Client has determined it must auto-configure an IP > address, it chooses an address. The algorithm for choosing an > address is implementation dependant. The address range to use MUST > be "169.254/16", which is registered with the IANA as the LINKLOCAL > net. Is this a draft from Microsoft, or is it from people who don't violate protocol layering with things like PAP? Do you have a reference to the draft? Also, if it's not MS, it would be just like them to declare that if there isn't a DHCP server, then they aren't a DHCP client, and they will therefore do what they damn well please. 8-(. Makes you hope it's their draft... Thanks, 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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