From: Scott Morris (swm@emanon.com)
Date: Sat Sep 25 2004 - 22:56:46 GMT-3
While that's true, I believe RFC 3330 (if memory serves) came AFTER
Microsoft decided to start handing out these addresses.
One o' them things. :)
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-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
James
Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2004 8:05 PM
To: joshua lauer
Cc: John Matus; lab
Subject: Re: microsoft 1918 address
On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 07:47:14PM -0400, joshua lauer wrote:
> I know when you dont have ip assigned ala' dhcp or static XP assigns
> you some itself, this is to facilitate "plug and play networking" for
> home user. Those are in the private range, as far as them being
> allocated to MS, I'm not sure..
It's not a Microsoft thing. It's an industry approved standard addr space
for link local... It's kind of like IPv6's built-in link local, except that
it behaves differently in v4.. :)
hth,
-J
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