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Re: [LUG] wireless frustration

 

On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 17:38 +0000, Simon Waters wrote:

> In the Microsoft/Apple world zeroconf will allocate addresses from
> 169.254/16 range automatically, and Linux will do this if you install
> the zeroconf packages for your distro.

If you're going for Zeroconf, you might want to look at Avahi as well...
it's a Zeroconf implementation that also does Service Discovery.  Quite
useful. :) 

Grant.


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