Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Why my wierd ifconfig setup won't work in iproute2... ever.
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2015 06:14:01
Message-Id: 201503020613.51599.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Why my wierd ifconfig setup won't work in iproute2... ever. by Stroller
1 On Monday 02 Mar 2015 00:33:11 Stroller wrote:
2 > On Sun, 1 March 2015, at 3:22 am, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote:
3 > > * My only option in an iproute2-only environment would be to get a 2nd
4 > >
5 > > NIC and attach the TV tuner to it.
6 > >
7 > > * My HDHomerun tuner is almost a museum-piece (spring of 2010). I
8 > >
9 > > figure that by the time ifconfig support is finally deprecated, I'll
10 > > be looking for a new tuner, rather than buying another NIC.
11 >
12 > About 10 days ago, Mick already suggested you configure you HDhomerun with
13 > a more appropriate IP address.
14 >
15 > http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/message/61171ddc1dfe80924ebc833060d0
16 > 6734
17 >
18 > I have not seen you address this. I cannot comprehend why not.
19 >
20 > A 169.254.x.y address is wrong. You should give the tuner a 192.168.123.z
21 > address.
22 >
23 > Stroller.
24
25 You seemed to have missed Walter's response, where explained a couple of days
26 ago that his tuner is too old and lacks the functionality to use anything else
27 but an autoconfigured address:
28
29 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/281174
30
31 --
32 Regards,
33 Mick

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