My limited understanding on these addresses are that they should ONLY be
used on your local
lans. Communication to the internet via an ISP would have to be dealt with
by using NAT or some
other proxy mechanism such as a firewall in which the outside addresses are
registered.
..dj
"Craig Columbus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> OK. I can accept that Microsoft (or Apple for that matter) would do
> something like this and then expect the world to revolve around
> them. However, I'm confused as to the benefit. Why would anyone want a
> non-assigned default IP address to appear on their network? Do they
really
> think that people will implement a non-RFC1918 compliant address space
just
> to save configuration time? (Actually, I can think of several cases where
> people might just go for this.)
> How do Internet backbone routers (BGP ASs) deal with this traffic?
> Let's say that I want to take the easy way out and I connect a small
> network to the Internet via an ISP. I'm not running NAT, but I'm running
> the 169.254 addresses inside my network. If I've got a static route to an
> ISP public address, and we're not exchanging routing information, I can't
> see how this traffic would ever get back to my network. If I'm exchanging
> routes with an ISP (via BGP or some other interior protocol), where and
how
> do the 169.254 routes get filtered? There has to be some mechanism, or
> there would be thousands of summary routes back to 169.254 showing up on
> the Internet table.
> Any help in understanding this is appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Craig
>
> At 03:27 AM 1/6/2001 -0800, you wrote:
> >On May 28, 10:03am, Priscilla Oppenheimer wrote:
> >}
> >} Microsoft stole this from AppleTalk. Ironically, Apple doesn't care and
in
> >
> > MS made a draft RFC about it, which has expired, and there is a
> >new draft by Apple (see my previous note).
> >
> >} fact has been using the Automatic Private IP Addressing scheme for a
few
> >} years. I think Microsoft themselves only started using it pretty
recently.
> >} (Windows 2000, you say?)
> >
> > No, Windows 98 does it as well (not sure about Windows 95, but it
> >would be a good bet).
> >
> >}-- End of excerpt from Priscilla Oppenheimer
> >
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