From: "Gregg Nemesure" 

I didn't know about APIPA. That's an ineresting idea.

The GUI doesn't allow any address beginning with 127. I think the behavior
would be too ill-defined for my taste anyway.

Thanks.

"John Beckett"  wrote
in message news:3f9f860f.10496623{at}216.144.1.254...
> Why not allow "obtain an IP automatically" and put up with the APIPA
> 169.254.x.x address you will get (or disable APIPA in the registry).
>
> Once booted, the two computers can then argue (presumably using a
> mechanism other than IP) to decide who gets the good IP.
>
> I wonder what would happen if you set the IP to 127.0.0.2. If the GUI
> won't allow it, you could just poke it in the registry.
>
> John
>
> "Gregg Nemesure"  wrote in message
> news::
> > I wrote software that allows me to assign an IP address to a network
> > adapter. I want to use this to allow two machines to boot and have only
one
> > of them assume a particular address. The program requires TCP be bound
to
> > the adapter.
> >
> > Is it possible to have Windows XP boot with no IP address assigned to
the
> > adapter? The Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properties dialog does not let
me
> > leave the IP address blank.
>

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