On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 17:39 +1000, Simon Slater wrote:
I must still be in the wrong place. Turned avahi-daemon off in
runlevels 345 and rebooted, yet NM's connection information still has
a 169.254 address. Should the next step be turn NM off and service
network on to see what happens then?
I'm not sure of Network Manager works this way, but some other systems
will re-use the last IP they had, as a default.
You are certain the daemon isn't running?
I haven't seen any good information about how Network Manager works, I
wonder if it also uses link-local addresses, internally.
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