Re: Microsoft Loopback address

From: Niche (jackyliu419@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Nov 28 2005 - 03:41:52 GMT-3


Try configure your windows XP request DHCP without any DHCP server
around, you will get 169.254.x.x ip address when you type "ipconfig"
from the command prompt.

It kinda like a automatically thing when DHCP doesn't work out in XP.

Best Regards,
Jacky

On 11/28/05, de Witt, Duane <duane.dewitt@siemens.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I believe that the RFC below will answer your question:
>
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3330.txt?number=3330
>
> It doesn't mention Microsoft anywhere, but it should be a standard which
> Microsoft should follow.
>
> It seems that there is a difference between loopback (127.0.0.0) and
> link local (169.254.0.0).
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Rajib Khan
> Sent: 27 November 2005 09:28 PM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Microsoft Loopback address
>
> Hi Group,
>
> If I were to identify Microsoft loopback address using ACl then should
> I only use 127.0.0.1 only or 127.0.0.0 network
>
> Thanks
>
> Raj
>
>
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