Michaelwagner Wrote: > Yeah, that confused me too. > > As I understand it, 169 addresses mean "I went to the DHCP server and > either couldn't find him or he wouldn't give me an address". > > That far it makes sense, because in an ad-hoc network there is no DHCP > server. > > But how come it works then? > > I suppose it's possible that the SB actually took an address in the 169 > range. TCP/IP doesn't, IIRC, actually prohibit using 169 addresses ... > but I've never tried using it, so I'm not sure. I think that's exactly how it's working. Both the Squeezebox and the wifi card in the PC are configured to pull an IP address through DHCP (no doubt the default on the PC) and both self-assign themselves 169.x.x.x addresses in the same subnet. And it works.
Moreover, this is exactly how it's supposed to work. There was actually a reason for self-assigned IP addresses - they weren't meant to be a red flag that something had failed in the IP address assignment. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25108 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
