[CLUE-Tech] Getting There With FC2

[David Anselmi]

Jed S. Baer wrote:
[...]
> This gets me a route that looks good to me. However, FC2 is still creating
> that 169.245 route. I have a strange hunch it has something to do with
> IPV6. I'm going to look into that next.

The 169.254 network is similar to RFC 1918 networks--unrouted private 
addresses.  They're called APIPA addresses, automatic private ip 
addressing.  If a machine can't get an IP (from its static config or 
DHCP), it can give itself one of these at random after pinging it to see 
that no one else on the network uses it.

The default setup in (recent) Windows is to use these addresses as an 
alternate network config.  We used this once at a hotel to play Unreal 
Tournament--everyone just plugged into the hub we had and all the boxes 
could talk without any change to their network configs.

You could use this, if both your boxes support it.  You wouldn't need a 
static config for your NICs.

Dave