OSX and DHCP server?

[Patrick Gallagher]

On 8/7/07, Alex Satrapa <grail at goldweb.com.au> wrote:

> To expand on the scenario, the address that the Mac assigns itself
> (from the 169.x.x.x network, if I remember correctly) is part of a
> number range allocated to "local". This is a magic network range used
> by devices that follow the ZeroConf specification (the Apple
> implementation is called Bonjour), so your Mac is assigning itself an
> address based on a procedure which the Ethernet-enabled device
> doesn't know.


The 169.254.x.x address's have nothing to do with zeroconf/bonjour. This is
link-local addressing that has been around probably as long as TCP/IP (or at
least System 7 and Win95).

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3330

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Patrick Gallagher
Emory College
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