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  • APIPA- Automatic Private IP Addressing.
  • It is a feature or characteristic in operating systems like windows which enables computers to self-configure an IP address and subnet mask automatically when their Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server isn’t reachable.
  • APIPAs IP address is (169.254.0.1 to 169.254.255.254) having 65,534 usable IP addresses, with the subnet mask of 255.255.0.0.
  • Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has initially reserved the IPV4 address block 254.0.0/16 (169.254.0.0 – 169.254.255.255) for link-local addressing.
  • From DHCP server the link-local addresses are allocated to interface in nature such that communication will be established while not getting a response.
  • Then Microsoft refers to this address autoconfiguration method as Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA).
  • The Automatic Private IP Address (APIPA) provides the configuration to check for the presence of a DHCP server in every five minutes, stated by Microsoft).
  • At network configuration area if APIPA detects a DHCP server, it stops and let run the DHCP server that replaces APIPA with dynamically allocated addresses.

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