RE: microsoft 1918 address

From: Scott Morris (swm@emanon.com)
Date: Sat Sep 25 2004 - 23:38:41 GMT-3


Ahh... I stand corrected! (or sit as the case may be!)

Scott

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From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Howard C. Berkowitz
Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2004 10:11 PM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: RE: microsoft 1918 address

At 9:56 PM -0400 9/25/04, Scott Morris wrote:
>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. :)

No, Microsoft decided to use it after MIT was using it on their networks,
according to a conversation I had with Jeff Schiller, MIT network manager
and former Security Area Director of the IETF.

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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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