From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Im7Cx-0007wQ-HV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:25:35 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l9SCOIlB006261; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:24:18 GMT Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.179]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l9SCK5KY001390 for ; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:20:06 GMT Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id u77so2774479pyb for ; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 05:20:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=24SXwZNKBJN6GwhMi5akMiN5AueGRQVYuLBq4svh3Fg=; b=Uk5hO+PgaX8TXtgvmOX3P7uvM85I0I/6rOphIXRQLubMQjBt332EJq46ZwMDDUHxehSUnD1m0g4g4aBz6HT96FeO3Tua8l2/CYk3N477IJthPL/y9X8tLo1Xc1s5/qNKAiXB3Xd7BDnwVsllElwbZffQ9qN461Q5JAELdopHH8k= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=jk2k7xldtq6R4dzCS+kZPObCR4LyRvL8H40Y5Nz4JLMJUnG3ASBmNv5szwHsz96urKxn1Apf57S1lF4r7hOyN3s2F62GNyIeSlTYML6Za0pXHgvOlDdNTChlK6BtsEvxuuoVmEXNUgRUKpvkkeNGu3uCB+rb1kA0SHTdx5mTnxM= Received: by 10.65.20.18 with SMTP id x18mr10395594qbi.1193574005574; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 05:20:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lappy.study ( [213.162.120.196]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 6sm16658434nfv.2007.10.28.05.20.03 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 28 Oct 2007 05:20:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 fallback configuration is ignored Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:19:13 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <1193485720.5963.5.camel@omc-2.omesc.com> <1193488091.13317.23.camel@orpheus> <20071027143346.27d094b6@pascal.spore.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <20071027143346.27d094b6@pascal.spore.ath.cx> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1410661.xb9xLSUX6m"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200710281219.15353.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: c5ad42be-96b6-46f8-b159-4d8d7d4edd88 X-Archives-Hash: 987d48d56a238c25effc55d33bd14d62 --nextPart1410661.xb9xLSUX6m Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 27 October 2007, Dan Farrell wrote: > On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:58:11 +0930 > > Iain Buchanan wrote: > > is it by any chance assigning you a 169... address? Did you recently > > upgrade dhcpcd to ... around ... 3.1.6 I think? Anyway, it now tries > > "zeroconf" or whatever it's called, to give you an address when > > there's no server around. Personally I don't like it, but you can > > decide :) > > This behaviour is called APIPA (Automatic PRivate IP Addressing) > (from /etc/conf.d/net.example): > # APIPA is a module that tries to find a free address in the range > # Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA) > # use APIPA to find a free address in the range > # 169.254.0.0-169.254.255.255 > > It provides DHCP-like functionality without a DHCP server. Pretty > useless, unless you use it to configure all your IPs or a route for that > subnet. Even worse, if your DHCP server comes up later, your PC will still hold on = to=20 APIPA - not sure how this feature can be of any use to be honest, but most= =20 devices these days from MS Windows to PDAs tend to behave like this. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1410661.xb9xLSUX6m Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBHJH5C5Fp0QerLYPcRAkNVAJ9hlaP/mTMDq02TBhxzJMGY2tA+iwCgr7ur 4wh5LeVUZpEnX3YrPJrNfcI= =fedW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1410661.xb9xLSUX6m-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list