Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1578 mails)

[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Lew Wolfgang wrote:
> On 11/16/2011 03:56 PM, James Knott wrote:
> > Lew Wolfgang wrote:
> > > or they'll just ban openSuSE 12.1 from use on the
> > > network. 
> >
> > Then they'll also have to ban Windows 7.
>
> Hi James,
>
> Win 7 can be configured to not use private addressing.  We have
> quite a few Win 7 systems on the network (unfortunately).
That second address you mentioned, which has the same first 64 bits as 
your desired address is *NOT* a private address.  It is a valid publicly 
available address for your subnet.  The only "private" address you 
mentioned was the link local address that starts with FE80.

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