RE: Private IP Ranges.

From: Bruce Rogers (brogers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Wed Jun 26 2002 - 11:24:25 GMT-3


   
As of April 2002 this is still a draft, see the following link.

http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-zeroconf-ipv4-linklocal-05

Bruce

        -----Original Message-----
        From: Oliver Boehmer [mailto:oboehmer@cisco.com]
        Sent: Wed 6/26/2002 8:02 AM
        To: steven.j.nelson@bt.com
        Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com
        Subject: Re: Private IP Ranges.
        
        

        Hi Steven,
        
>I know that a new private IP address range was added to the "standard"
 list
>in July 2001, the range is 169.254.0.0 to 169.254.255.255 can anyone t
ell me
>what RFC this is contained in ?
        
        This range is used for IPv4 autoconfig as described in
        draft-ietf-dhc-ipv4-autoconfig, I don't know if it ever made it into an
        RFC. I wouldn't consider it part of RFC1918 address ranges, though..
        
                 oli



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