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dhcp clients gets funky addresses (Score:2)

by ask (83)

... that's a feature. The weird one hundred and sixty something dot something dot something dot something addresses is what the standards says they should take when the dhcpd doesn't answer.

I forget, but I think it's something so computers in a tiny network can network with ip without any configuration or dhpc servers.

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-- ask bjoern hansen [askbjoernhansen.com], !try; do();
- Re:dhcp clients gets funky addresses (Score:2)
  
  by gnat (29) on 2002.01.07 14:19 (#2804) Journal
  
  I forget, but I think it's something so computers in a tiny network can network with ip without any configuration or dhpc servers.
  D'oh! That makes perfect sense. One of those situations where it's useful in a rare situation but a hindrance in the common situation. Well, I presume that using a DHCP client when you have a DHCP server is the common situation :-)
  --Nat
  
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