On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 17:53, Scot L. Harris wrote:
> >
> > The idea is that you can plug machines into a local network and have
> > them talk to each other with no setup and no preconfigured DHCP service.
> > Each picks some more-or-less random and hopefully unique address in
> > this subnet. Windows boxes will do it if a DHCP request times out.
> > Machines can find and access each other by name with broadcast based
> > naming like netbios or dns over multicast like rendezvous.
>
> I understand what it is suppose to do. But as far as I can tell it has
> never been used. Has anyone actually used zeroconf for this? Other
> than to test it to see if it actually works?
My networks all have either carefully designed IP addressing schemes
or a NAT router with DHCP. Since home NAT routers are so cheap,
I'd guess that everyone who has a small network has one, but
I don't have any reason to doubt that this address would work
with samba and windows clients on an isolated network with
no DHCP.
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Les Mikesell
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