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[6] This results in the following well-known practical multicast addresses for SSDP: 239.255.255.250 (IPv4 site-local address) ff02::c (IPv6 link-local) ff05::c (IPv6 site-local) Additionally, applications may use the source-specific multicast addresses derived from the local IPv6 routing prefix, with group ID c (decimal 12).
[6] [7] If a host on an IEEE 802 network cannot obtain a network address via DHCP, an address from 169.254.1.0 to 169.254.254.255 [Note 2] may be assigned pseudorandomly. The standard prescribes that address collisions must be handled gracefully.
Open Group Technical Standard: Base Specifications, Issue 6, December 2001. ISO/IEC 9945:2002; Information about this standard and ongoing work on it is available from the Austin website. The IPv6 extensions to the base socket API are documented in RFC 3493 and RFC 3542. Stevens, W. Richard; Rago, Stephen A. (May 24, 2013).