On Fri, 2020-05-08 at 00:23 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
It's a standard, but I don't think NetworkManager will switch
to it
automatically. However, there is an option in the network settings
to pick "link-local" which is that.
As far as I recall, if you boot up an unconfigured / default
configuration Fedora installation, and it tries to connect to a DHCP
server but can't (such as the server was down), it will eventually use
link-local addresses. I seem to remember that zeroconf (which uses
those addresses), is part of a default installation.
And, as I seem to recall that if you booted up Fedora preconfigured to
use DHCP network settings, but it couldn't find a DHCP server, it just
didn't get an IP assigned to it.
I can't test either of these at the moment.
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