On Thursday 19 August 2004 16:37, Jerry Feldman wrote:
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 08:48:25 -0500
Danny Sauer
wrote: 169.254.0.0/255.255.0.0 is the netblock used by autoconfigured DHCP machines. If you've ever taken a windows box and turned it on without a DHCP server anywhere, it will autoconfigure itself to use an address from that range. It'll then send out a broadcast to see fi anyone else replies on that address, and pick another from that range if the one it chose was taken. And so on. That way, you could have a hub, some wires, and no knowledge of how to configure a network, but still get a couple of home machines to talk to each other. Most DHCP clients now will use that so they can interoperate nicely.
Yes, but I don't understand why it is configured on 9.1, even when I have used only a static address.
The idea is to make 9.1 zeroconf ready. http://www.zeroconf.org zeroconf is a system for configuring machines completely automatically, assigning ip addresses on local lan without dhcp and all, and the 169.254/16 network is a part of that