From: Niche (jackyliu419@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Nov 28 2005 - 03:58:36 GMT-3
Unless the question request to block all reserved ipv4 address scopes
(the common thing of these 2 scopes are), I consider they are seperate
ranges as well.
Best Regards,
Jacky
On 11/28/05, de Witt, Duane <duane.dewitt@siemens.com> wrote:
> I understand the process, but according to the RFC LOOPBACK (127) and
> LINK LOCAL (169.254) are separate ranges. If you are asked to block
> loopback there is no reason to include link local.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Niche [mailto:jackyliu419@gmail.com]
> Sent: 28 November 2005 08:42 AM
> To: de Witt, Duane
> Cc: Rajib Khan; ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Re: Microsoft Loopback address
>
> 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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