[Babel-users] AHCP and IPv4 support

[Henning Rogge]

Am Dienstag 08 Juni 2010, 21:09:19 schrieb Mitar:
> Hi!
> 
> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Juliusz Chroboczek
> 
> <Juliusz.Chroboczek at pps.jussieu.fr> wrote:
> > Since AHCP's task is assigning IP addresses, AHCP needs to be able to
> > communicate before it has assigned IP addresses (duh).  In IPv6 this is
> > easy -- just use link-local addresses.
> 
> Why not use link-local addresses in IPv4? The we-all-know-and-love
> 169.254.* addresses?
Because there are not enough of them to generate them from MAC. With only 2^16 
IPs it's a lot easier to get a collision.

Henning Rogge
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