On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 03:39:44PM -0500, scgmille at freenetproject.org wrote:
> Also, does Fred check for reserved address ranges?  It seems this would 
> be able to rule out most publicly inaccessible interfaces.

Yes. tcpTransport.Address(). 0.*, 192.168.*, 10.* etc will all be
rejected as invalid addresses. Something very strange is happening on
Niklas's node; maybe he is misreading it, or maybe he doesn't actually
have a routable IP address.
> 
>       Scott
> 
> On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 10:32:25PM +0200, Niklas Bergh wrote:
> > This is from the fascinating world of Microsoft..
> > 
> > I was very surprised to notice that after the last restart fred was bound to
> > this to me previously unknown interface on my computer:
> > 
> > Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 3:
> > 
> >         Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
> >         Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft TV/Video Connection
> >         Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00
> >         Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
> >         Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
> >         Autoconfiguration IP Address. . . : 5.0.1.0
> >         Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255
> >         Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
> > 
> > Some research uncovered that this strange new interface would be the camera
> > in my new Sony Ericsson T610 phone connected to my computer via bluetooth...
> > Luckily enough it would seem that many nodes around the network already had
> > a valid noderef for my node so they just kept the requests coming :)
> > 
> > Would it be too much to ask that fred, when it scans through all of the
> > computers available interfaces, at least tries to stay with the interface
> > that can be found in the 'node' file if it still is present in the system
> > (even if a new interface or two have appeared).
> > 
> > /N
> > 
> > 
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