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If both ends got APIPA addresses would they be able to talk to each other? I was under the impression you have to set up the devices as each other's default ga
by greenshackle2 3y ago
If both ends got APIPA addresses would they be able to talk to each other?
I was under the impression you have to set up the devices as each other's default gateway, but maybe I'm the one not up to modern standards this time.
- baq 3y agoThere's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicast_DNS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicast_DNS though I'll admit I never properly tried it.
- adrian_b 3y agoTheir randomly chosen addresses are within the same /16 subnetwork. Therefore they can talk directly, without using a gateway. Their corresponding Ethernet MAC addresses will be resolved by ARP. The problem is that in many cases you would have to look at the autoconfigured addresses and introduce manually the peer address in each computer. For file sharing, either in Windows or using Samba on Linux, you could autodiscover the other computer and just use the name of the shared resource.