Trying to direct connect to a Macbook with no luck

[clearwaterbrewer]

It would be interesting to have the developers do a test and set the fallback address in the BCS code to an easy to remember address in the 169.254.0.0/16 network, such as 169.254.9.9 255.255.0.0

then, if you unplug your PC network cable, unplug the BCS network cable, and then plug them into each other, (and maybe power-cycle the BCS) the following should happen:

1 - The PC fails to get a DHCP afte rthe cable is connected and assigns itself a 169.254 address.. (usually something like 169.254.221.101/255.255.0.0).
2 - the BCS would fail to get a DHCP address and use the programmed 169.254.9.9 255.255.0.0

the two addresses are in the same network, so from the PC, going to http://169.254.9.9 should work with no configuration on anyone part...


This is the whole idea behind 'Link Local' addresses...

-mike
CCIE #6771

[brahn]

Anybody can try this. This is how 3.x works. The address of the BCS is 169.254.0.63.

[clearwaterbrewer]

LOL... I guess I forgot, mine has worked just fine for the past 3-4 years