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<reference anchor='RFC2563'>

<front>
<title abbrev='DHCP Auto-Configuration Option'>DHCP Option to Disable Stateless Auto-Configuration in IPv4 Clients</title>
<author initials='R.' surname='Troll' fullname='Ryan Troll'>
<organization>@Home Network</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>425 Broadway</street>
<city>Redwood City</city>
<region>CA</region>
<code>94063</code>
<country>US</country></postal>
<phone>+1 650 556 6031</phone>
<email>rtroll@corp.home.net</email></address></author>
<date month='May' year='1999' />
<abstract>
<t>Operating Systems are now attempting to support ad-hoc networks of
   two or more systems, while keeping user configuration at a minimum.
   To accommodate this, in the absence of a central configuration
   mechanism (DHCP), some OS's are automatically choosing a link-local
   IP address which will allow them to communicate only with other hosts
   on the same link.  This address will not allow the OS to communicate
   with anything beyond a router.  However, some sites depend on the
   fact that a host with no DHCP response will have no IP address.  This
   document describes a mechanism by which DHCP servers are able to tell
   clients that they do not have an IP address to offer, and that the
   client should not generate an IP address it's own.</t></abstract></front>

<seriesInfo name='RFC' value='2563' />
</reference>
