No. Newer M$ system will assign IPs from 169.254.0.0/16 if they can't find a dhcp server. I don't know if that can be released or not.
-dennis2(Dennis);
2001-11-16(#264395@0)
it's private ip address, it asign by windows if there is no dhcp server cann't reach on the network, and that's new feature come with win98
-winger1234(ben);
2001-11-16(#264449@0)