On Mon February 18 2008, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> 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).
yes, that too - good catch, Matthew - I'd forgotten that bit about NM not
handling statics...
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Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD, USA