On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 10:20 -0500, Claude Jones wrote:
> On Mon February 18 2008, Ric Moore wrote:
>> My eth0 interface keeps injecting this IP address
>> whois 169.254.136.49
>> [Querying
whois.arin.net]
>> [
whois.arin.net]
>>
>> OrgName: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
>> OrgID: IANA
>> Address: 4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 330
>> City: Marina del Rey
>> StateProv: CA
>> PostalCode: 90292-6695
>> Country: US
>>
>> I have my modem (ppp0) set to use dhcp and my ethernet card set to
>> static IP: 192.168.1.101, using network manager, but the SOB keeps
>> reverting eth0 back to 169.254.136.49. What's with that???
>>
>> I have no clue, but it's annoying as all hell because I have a local net
>> with drive mounts to and from my other machines. Looks like some
>> hand-edits are in order. Best suggestions? Ric
> Forget that lookup you did. 169.254........ addresses are link-local addresses
> used by zeroconf to assign an address when the device is set to use DHCP to
> get an address, but no DHCP server is available.
>
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-local_address
>
> I can't speak to your setup, but, it sounds like your DHCP server is not
> coming up before your card is attempting to be assigned an address.
NetworkManager doesn't (yet) do static addresses or start-on-boot. If
you want either of those, set
NM_CONTROLLED=no
in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (or set the appropriate
option in system-config-network).
??? I don't have that in any of my FC[678] machines, and they just have
the IP, NET, and NETMASK set. See ifcfg-lo for an example.
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