All the Mac machines at work seem to do this too. Looks like it's not just Microsoft that defaults to the 169.254.0.0/16 subnet. > > The original idea is claimed to be ease of use for end users (home > users) in that setting up mulitple systems at home and they will be > able to 'talk' to each other as they will be in the same IP network. > > -sp > --- Sam Peterson