From: James Ventre (messageboard@ventrefamily.com)
Date: Mon Jan 10 2005 - 15:59:59 GMT-3
169.254.0.0/16 is the auto-configure range. And it's not just MS Stuff,
it's actually RFC'd (RFC3330)
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3330.html
169.254.0.0/16 - This is the "link local" block. It is allocated for
communication between hosts on a single link. Hosts obtain these
addresses by auto-configuration, such as when a DHCP server may not
be found.
If 127.0.0.1 isn't a loopback ... then what is answering for it when I ping it - and all I have plugged into my NIC is a looped RJ45?
James
Joseph D. Phillips wrote:
>No, it's not.
>
>If you got that question on the exam, Cisco was probably referring to
>169.254.0.0/16
>
>Kind of dirty pool because Microsoft itself does not refer to this address
>range as such. To Microsoft, it's its "autonet" address range, used for
>autoconfiguration of network interface adapters.
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