Am Dienstag 08 Juni 2010, 21:09:19 schrieb Mitar: > Hi! > > On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Juliusz Chroboczek > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Since AHCP's task is assigning IP addresses, AHCP needs to be able to > > communicate before it has assigned IP addresses (duh). In IPv6 this is > > easy -- just use link-local addresses. > > Why not use link-local addresses in IPv4? The we-all-know-and-love > 169.254.* addresses? Because there are not enough of them to generate them from MAC. With only 2^16 IPs it's a lot easier to get a collision.
Henning Rogge -- 1) You can't win. 2) You can't break even. 3) You can't leave the game. — The Laws of Thermodynamics, summarized
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