On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 08:57:13AM -0700, Matthew Kaufman wrote:
> The address is that in the range reserved by IANA for point to point
> link endpoints.

Is *that* the definition?

Ah.

> By having a preconfigured address, it makes it possible to access the
> unit at setup time to configure it. And that's an excellent range from
> which to pick the preconfigured address.
> 
> What other address would you suggest?

I hadn't realized that that was what that range was designed for.
Silly me; I presumed it was the "Let's use this for pseudo-DHCP
networking because we don't know any better" address space. 

If that's really what we're calling that these days, I retract my
objection.

Cheers,
- jra
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