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On Sunday 28 October 2007, Dan Farrell wrote: |
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> On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:19:13 +0000 |
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> Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > On Saturday 27 October 2007, Dan Farrell wrote: |
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> > > On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:58:11 +0930 |
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> > > |
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> > > Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au> wrote: |
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> > > This behaviour is called APIPA (Automatic PRivate IP Addressing) |
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> > > (from /etc/conf.d/net.example): |
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> > > # APIPA is a module that tries to find a free address in the range |
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> > > # Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA) |
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> > > # use APIPA to find a free address in the range |
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> > > # 169.254.0.0-169.254.255.255 |
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> > > |
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> > > It provides DHCP-like functionality without a DHCP server. Pretty |
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> > > useless, unless you use it to configure all your IPs or a route for |
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> > > that subnet. |
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> > Even worse, if your DHCP server comes up later, your PC will still |
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> > hold on to APIPA - not sure how this feature can be of any use to be |
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> > honest, but most devices these days from MS Windows to PDAs tend to |
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> > behave like this. |
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Let me correct myself here: my Gentoo boxen behave like this. A WinXP that I |
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tested for this purpose does not. It comes up with the APIPA address and |
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when a router becomes available in the network later on, it readily obtains a |
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dhcp address and drops the APIPA. Any idea how to configure Gentoo to do the |
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same? |
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> I was also wondering what kind of useful purpose this would serve. I |
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> am guessing that it would be enough for a network on one broadcast |
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> domain, if there is no need for any routing information. |
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I am guessing that it is a way of getting two computers talking to each other |
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when they find themselves connected, but without a router? |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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