now when my pc boot (ip configuration is set to obtain automatically ip address...) it try's to get an ip but it fails and i can tell that because i get this one 169.254.60.210 witch is the limited IP address in windows and it is set when the connection to the DHCP is failed...
now i connect normally and in the connection configuration the IP's are 172.24.36.241
and what really freak's me out is the subnet mask witch is 255.255.255.255
i mean where is the host portion in this IP...
or if each host is considered as a network witch is as ind of security measure....
this is the result of my ipconfig command:
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Windows IP Configuration
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Autoconfiguration IP Address. . . : 169.254.60.210
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
Ethernet adapter VirtualBox Host-Only Network:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.56.1
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
PPP adapter connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 172.24.36.241
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 172.24.36.241