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On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:58:11 +0930 |
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au> wrote: |
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> is it by any chance assigning you a 169... address? Did you recently |
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> upgrade dhcpcd to ... around ... 3.1.6 I think? Anyway, it now tries |
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> "zeroconf" or whatever it's called, to give you an address when |
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> there's no server around. Personally I don't like it, but you can |
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> decide :) |
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This behaviour is called APIPA (Automatic PRivate IP Addressing) |
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(from /etc/conf.d/net.example): |
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# APIPA is a module that tries to find a free address in the range |
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# Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA) |
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# use APIPA to find a free address in the range |
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# 169.254.0.0-169.254.255.255 |
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It provides DHCP-like functionality without a DHCP server. Pretty |
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useless, unless you use it to configure all your IPs or a route for that |
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subnet. |
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