Re: CentOS 5.7 eth0, eth1 and arpwatch flip flops

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On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Mike Burger <mburger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>
> > On 12/26/2012 04:33 AM, Mike Burger wrote:
> >> 169.xxx.xxx.xxx is most certainly a "routable" IP block, as far as
> >> internet standards go.
> >
> > Most of 169/8 is, but presumably he meant 169.254.0.0/16.
> >
> >> The only "non-routable" (i.e. reserved for private networks) IP blocks
> >> are:
> >
> > The list is slightly longer than that:
> >
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserved_IP_addresses#Reserved_IPv4_addresses
>
> Fair enough...I've just never seen anyone actually use it.
>
>
I've only ever seen 169.254.0.0/16 used by ZeroConf on Windows boxes and I
expect Avahi (zero conf alternative) on Linux does the same.


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