Re: Fedora and APIPA 169.254.x.x

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Am Mo, den 12.01.2004 schrieb Dexter Ang um 06:45:
> On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 11:53, Alexander Dalloz wrote:

[ snip ]

> > If you do not disable it - by setting NOZEROCONF=yes in
> > /etc/sysconfig/network - then Redhat 9 and Fedora Core 1 are setting a
> > route to 169.254.0.0/16. This should be enough to find other machines in
> > the same net.
> > 
> > Alexander
> 
> OK thanks! That's nice to know. I guess all I have to do is set the
> static IP upon boot with ifconfig. Would there be any possibility of
> doing this automatically? Will this route work even though eth0 isn't
> up?
> 
> dex

What do you mean by "set the static IP upon boot with ifconfig"? All
real devices should be set up properly with a configuration file like
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0. No need to do that manually.
The APIPA will of course only be set if there is at least one (real)
device, like eth0.

Alexander


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