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The Saturday 2006-12-16 at 20:18 -0900, John Andersen wrote: > My older servers don't have this but my 9.3 and onwards seems > to always have this, and I'm not sure what its for. :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_network | Link-local addresses (Zeroconf) | | A second set of private network is the link-local address range codified | in RFCs 3330 and 3927. The intention behind these RFCs is to provide an | IP address (and by implication, network connectivity) without a DHCP | server being available and without having to configure a network address | manually. The subnet 169.254/16 has been reserved for this purpose. | If a network address cannot be obtained via DHCP, an address from | 169.254.1.0 to 169.254.254.255 is assigned randomly. The standard | prescribes that address collisions must be handled gracefully. Within | the 169.254/16 address range, the subnets 169.254.0/24 and | 169.254.255/24 have been set aside for future use. | | As with the private network addresses defined in RFC 1918, packets from | this subnet must not be routed to the internet at large. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFhUsHtTMYHG2NR9URAn1IAJ43F1QLoYbvWof1u7dRQhhMghrjYQCfWkLE nMtZEsogn5CV4XSO5Mzfu6A= =+hf4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
