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Re: RFC: very large, redundant packages



On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 02:43:14PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * Wilmer van der Gaast 
> 
> | Marco d'Itri@lists.debian-devel@Fri, 26 Apr 2002 15:35:21 +0200:
> | >  There is. 169.254.0.0/16
> | >  
> | Btw, what's the big difference between 192.168.x.x/24 or 10.0.0.0/8 and
> 
> 192.168.0.0/24 and 10.0.0.0/8 (and 172.16.0.0/12) are RFC1918 (aka
> private) addresses.  They should not be routed on public networks, but
> may be used on closed networks.
> 
> | 169.254.0.0/16?
> 
> link-local addresses, typically used when a system bootstraps itself
> using DHCP, etc.  Usually not used.

WIndows use it for NetBIOS and SMB. It exists an RFC for how to determine
a unique IP in that address space. I do not remember which now though.

Regards,

// Ola

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