• 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:
  1. Address Autoconfiguration: play nice
  2. Name-to-Address Translation
  3. Service Discovery
  4. Multicast Address Allocation
• Good for small networks, may add complexity to big

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