Re: [gentoo-user] Why my wierd ifconfig setup won't work in iproute2... ever.

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Monday 02 Mar 2015 00:33:11 Stroller wrote:
> On Sun, 1 March 2015, at 3:22 am, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote:
> > * My only option in an iproute2-only environment would be to get a 2nd
> > 
> >  NIC and attach the TV tuner to it.
> > 
> > * My HDHomerun tuner is almost a museum-piece (spring of 2010).  I
> > 
> >  figure that by the time ifconfig support is finally deprecated, I'll
> >  be looking for a new tuner, rather than buying another NIC.
> 
> About 10 days ago, Mick already suggested you configure you HDhomerun with
> a more appropriate IP address.
> 
> http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/message/61171ddc1dfe80924ebc833060d0
> 6734
> 
> I have not seen you address this. I cannot comprehend why not.
> 
> A 169.254.x.y address is wrong. You should give the tuner a 192.168.123.z
> address.
> 
> Stroller.

You seemed to have missed Walter's response, where explained a couple of days 
ago that his tuner is too old and lacks the functionality to use anything else 
but an autoconfigured address:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/281174

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Regards,
Mick

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