-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Saturday 01 Mar 2003 5:55 pm, Christopher Samuel wrote:
> Interestingly enough, RFC-3330 doesn't say where it was defined. :-) Found it here on the ZeroConf Networking IETF working groups pages: http://files.zeroconf.org/draft-ietf-zeroconf-ipv4-linklocal.txt Abstract In general, to participate in wide-area IP networking, a host needs configuration information, either entered manually by the user, or received automatically from an information source on the network such as a DHCP server. However, such external configuration information may not always be available. It would be beneficial for a host to have some useful subset of IP networking that it can depend upon to be always functional, even when no configuration information is available to the host, or the configuration information the host has is incorrect. This document describes a method by which a host may automatically configure an interface with an IPv4 address in the 169.254/16 prefix that is valid for link-local communication on that interface. - -- Chris Samuel : http://csamuel.org/ : Wollongong, NSW -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBPmBbIo1yjaOTJg85AQFd/Af8C0OTCnVVuXao+uKnEdmCSuvGeWP9xgkZ ElKHPDx/ewL1KV6FkKU+g/pEg86OlfsH8Lqv3E2UwKEyLTXRWw7EZKvsRhi4d1Nr xf5iJfB4T+QA6TXoc6OI1uC+xE2XaBYp7deOjg7H87kfsok55b0d+D15OBsSe/dM tKocGTNtc/X05aqkXNcW9PXWYW6NoftMniId8MJ+2aCtO/bNfGNPRvOkYphWKP95 KT3dNE2OQjqfd8iCjhQSimpeDLk8T2ixzMHTAVMB223W3etxoZtb7fNbUiK0s/kq vVZcpZcrK9O84lqI58/MboR3W55kAlutfonvmP02kFEWkVAUR4+oWA== =iFAf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
