Re: msft 169.254.173.250 IP address

Hello,

Here is the link to the RFC, the first couple of paragraphs provides a good
overview and summary.

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3927.txt

Basically you PC is not able to communicate w/ the DHCP server so it
automatically assigns itself an address per the RFC.

HTH,

Andrew Lee Lissitz

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Sadiq Yakasai <sadiqtanko_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>
> I have done abit of googling but to no avail...but does anyone have any
> information about this IP address on Windows XP please?
>
> The PC is doing DHCP straight away but I am still seeing traffic sourced
> from this IP address on a wireshark trace, which is kinda weird. Appears to
> me like the PC assigns itself this IP address right before assigning the IP
> address from the DHCP server.
>
> PS: There is no delay what so ever from the DHCP server and the client does
> NOT timeout on DHCP.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Sadiq
>
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