RE: msft 169.254.173.250 IP address

Did you install a Microsoft Loopback adapter, perhaps as part of a GNS3
or Dynamips install?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf
Of
> Sadiq Yakasai
> Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 9:35 AM
> To: ALL From_NJ
> Cc: Cisco certification; Cisco certification
> Subject: 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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
> >>
> >>
> >> Blogs and organic groups at http://www.ccie.net
> >>
> >>
>
Received on Wed Apr 08 2009 - 14:02:42 ART