[100979] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NeXT Default Network
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JAKO Andras)
Tue Nov 27 20:36:59 2007
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 02:34:37 +0100 (CET)
From: JAKO Andras <jako.andras@eik.bme.hu>
To: Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com>
cc: "Barry Greene (bgreene)" <bgreene@cisco.com>, nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <433F1C63-799E-4184-82F6-7FF45CE19247@cisco.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Fred, Brandon, Spiro,
Thanks for all your answers.
> operating system called NextStep. It sounds like they came up with a variety
> of site-local address pre-RFC1918 and pre-RFC3927 that did something similar
> to RFC 3927 addresses.
That's it. 192.42.172.0/24 is often used in examples, but I also found in
the "Automatic Host Addition" chapter of
http://www.levenez.com/NeXTSTEP/netinfo_user_guide.pdf the following:
"The second property, configuration_ipaddr, is required and specifies the
address that must not be allocated by nibootpd. This address is in fact
the address that NeXT uses to identify a new workstation temporarily
during the boot process. It should always be set to 192.42.172.253
explicitly."
It looks like this /24 is (was) a must for their "Automatic Host Addition"
process. So now I see how this prefix got into Barry's list.
Andras
