Re: msft 169.254.173.250 IP address

Thanks for the link man! But....you obviously did not read the email to its
end :-)

Thanks anyways,.....any other takers?

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 2:34 PM, ALL From_NJ <all.from.nj_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Here is the link to the RFC, the first couple of paragraphs provides a good
> overview and summary.
>
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3927.txt
>
> Basically you PC is not able to communicate w/ the DHCP server so it
> automatically assigns itself an address per the RFC.
>
> HTH,
>
> Andrew Lee Lissitz
>
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>
>
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Sadiq Yakasai <sadiqtanko_at_gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> I have done abit of googling but to no avail...but does anyone have any
>> information about this IP address on Windows XP please?
>>
>> The PC is doing DHCP straight away but I am still seeing traffic sourced
>> from this IP address on a wireshark trace, which is kinda weird. Appears
>> to
>> me like the PC assigns itself this IP address right before assigning the
>> IP
>> address from the DHCP server.
>>
>> PS: There is no delay what so ever from the DHCP server and the client
>> does
>> NOT timeout on DHCP.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Sadiq
>>
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