Re: *** draft 4 - press release ***
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
20 Jan 1999 21:20:50 GMT
Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.91.990120092713.4169B-100000@toaster.roan.co.uk>
By author: Mike Jagdis <mike@roan.co.uk>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>
> > Now, it is possible to have a powerful installation
> > program that learns about the hardware that would install Linux
> > with no human intervention at all. In fact, the default configuration
> > could have one of those "harmless" never to be routed IP addresses and
> > even a default machine name.
>
> There are no "harmless" IP addresses. Those that aren't routed
> are often used on internal networks. If you default to one of
> those you could still collide with a machine - possibly a critical
> workgroup server :-).
>
Actually, there are. The 192.0.2.0/24 network is reserved as an
"experimental" network, and there is a class B network assigned for
"link-local" networks: pick a random address, ARP for it, if noone
replies, you can use that address.
-hpa
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