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Q: In WinXP, a strange IP address bound to the adapters ( No Answer,   2 Comments )
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Subject: In WinXP, a strange IP address bound to the adapters
Category: Computers > Internet
Asked by: pcventures-ga
List Price: $5.00
Posted: 01 Nov 2003 11:00 PST
Expires: 06 Nov 2003 14:55 PST
Question ID: 271703
A friend of mine has a problem with their wireless setup. He can't
connect to the Internet, and when I do a WINIPCFG, I get an autoconfig
address of 169.x.x.x (usual autoconfig address), and an IP address of
fe::80f048:afff:fefc:ecdd%4.
I've never seen an IP address like that before - very strange.
Anyone have an idea of what it could be?
All adapters bound to TCP/IP seem to give these readings.
Thanks...
(PS - I know this isn't the MAC address I'm looking at)
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Subject: Re: In WinXP, a strange IP address bound to the adapters
From: easy2kit-ga on 01 Nov 2003 15:08 PST
 
It looks like literal IPv6 addresse , as described in "IP Version 6
Addressing Architecture"

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ipv6-addr-arch-v4-00.txt
Subject: Re: In WinXP, a strange IP address bound to the adapters
From: cynthia-ga on 01 Nov 2003 18:04 PST
 
This miught help:

IP 169.xxx.xxx.xxx explained
http://www.z123.org/techsupport/ip169.htm

~~Cynthia

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