Jay R. Ashworth writes: > 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.
> The default IP address of the 'backhaul' radio is 169.254.1.1 > > Someone doesn't understand the Internet, maybe? 169.254/16 is reserved for Linklocal addresses (not just point-to-point adresses) zaphod 14 whois -h whois.arin.net 169.254.1.1 IANA (NETBLK-LINKLOCAL) Internet Assigned Numbers Authority 4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 330 Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695 US Netname: LINKLOCAL Netblock: 169.254.0.0 - 169.254.255.255 and yes this is IANA approved, and IETF drafts are being circulated. http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-zeroconf-ipv4-linklocal-05.txt This (along with a few other things like multicast DNS) is being called "Zeroconf" now. Jim p.s. there is also a block of addresses reserved for exchange points (198.32/16) -- "Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure." -- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963) -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
