- Ever tried to hookup two machines with just a cable?
- IPv4LL--aimed at replacing AppleTalk and NetBIOS
- DHCP-free autoconfiguration
- IETF Zeroconf WG
- MS/Apple approach: make up an addr, then DHCP
- Problems with above
- Multicast-heavy
- Four pieces:
- Address Autoconfiguration: play nice
- Name-to-Address Translation
- Service Discovery
- Multicast Address Allocation
- Good for small networks, may add complexity to big
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