On Jul 2, 2006, at 10:57 AM, Michaelwagner wrote:
Ah, that makes sense. You might be right - 2 devices that self-
assign in
the same address range might well talk properly, if they self-
assign to
different addresses but in the same subnet.
How odd.
Not that odd. :)
There's actually a standard for self-assigning addresses and a
special range reserved (169.254.x.x) for exactly this purpose. It's
called "link-local" addressing and is enabled by default on Windows,
Mac and Squeezebox2/3.
Gory details here:
<http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc3927.txt>
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