Re: iphlpapi: Set 0.0.0.0 as the IP and mask of disconnected interfaces

[Henri Verbeet]

On 15 January 2015 at 13:13, Bruno Jesus <00cpxxx(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> 0.0.0.0, when it's connected and using DHCP but no DHCP server is
> found it returns an APIPA [1] address.
> I think on Linux that's usually called an IPv4LL address, and it's set
> by the dhcp client if configured to do that.

iphlpapi: Set 0.0.0.0 as the IP and mask of disconnected interfaces

[Bruno Jesus]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 11:09 AM, Henri Verbeet <hverbeet(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On 15 January 2015 at 13:13, Bruno Jesus <00cpxxx(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > 0.0.0.0, when it's connected and using DHCP but no DHCP server is
> > found it returns an APIPA [1] address.
> > I think on Linux that's usually called an IPv4LL address, and it's set
> > by the dhcp client if configured to do that.

You are right, IPv4LL is the standard name, APIPA is a MS nickname to
the same thing according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeroconf