Therefore, we recommend that you either manually assign static IP addresses or use the following method to establish a DHCP server to officially assign IP addresses to the computers on your VPN. However, there are stability issues when using APIPA assigned IP addresses. Computers that have been temporarily automatically assigned IP addresses via APIPA will be able to communicate with each other. The APIPA functionality built in to Windows or Mac OS will assign IP addresses to Virtual Network Adapters on the Virtual LAN even if no DHCP server exists on the network. This assignment occurs even if the network adapter is configured to receive an IP via DHCP. APIPA automatically assigns an IP address at random from the IP range 169.254.0.1 to 169.254.255.254 to a network adapter if it does not receive an IP from DHCP in a certain amount of time (around 1 minute). About APIPA (Automatic Private IP Addressing)Īll Windows versions since Windows 98 and the latest Mac OS come packaged with APIPA (Automatic Private IP Addressing) capabilities.
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