On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 9:51 PM David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > > On Fri 24 Feb 2023 at 22:43:49 (+0100), Geert Stappers wrote: > > [...] > I see you rebooted, and you get the same address. It's ambiguous as > to why: it could have been stored, which makes things more efficient > when a number of machines start up and don't have to renegotiate; > or it could have been recomputed anew by a pseudorandom process on a > host-dependent seed, which would generate the same sequence of tries > each time you boot.
APIPA's use a deterministic process to generate the random host portion of the address. They will generate the same host portion of the address across reboots and restarts without the need to save state. Jeff
