Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 13:58:34 -0600 (CST) From: "Jasper O'Malley" <jooji@webnology.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: W Gerald Hicks <wghicks@bellsouth.net>, jcwells@u.washington.edu, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lets Endorse KDE Was: some slashdot thread Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.02.9902021347530.27333-100000@mercury.webnology.com> In-Reply-To: <199902021841.LAA06274@usr05.primenet.com>
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On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > 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. 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
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