On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 10:20 -0500, Claude Jones wrote: > On Mon February 18 2008, Ric Moore wrote: > > My eth0 interface keeps injecting this IP address > > whois 169.254.136.49 > > [Querying whois.arin.net] > > [whois.arin.net] > > > > OrgName: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority > > OrgID: IANA > > Address: 4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 330 > > City: Marina del Rey > > StateProv: CA > > PostalCode: 90292-6695 > > Country: US > > > > I have my modem (ppp0) set to use dhcp and my ethernet card set to > > static IP: 192.168.1.101, using network manager, but the SOB keeps > > reverting eth0 back to 169.254.136.49. What's with that??? > > > > I have no clue, but it's annoying as all hell because I have a local net > > with drive mounts to and from my other machines. Looks like some > > hand-edits are in order. Best suggestions? Ric > > Forget that lookup you did. 169.254........ addresses are link-local addresses > used by zeroconf to assign an address when the device is set to use DHCP to > get an address, but no DHCP server is available. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-local_address > > I can't speak to your setup, but, it sounds like your DHCP server is not > coming up before your card is attempting to be assigned an address. NetworkManager doesn't (yet) do static addresses or start-on-boot. If you want either of those, set NM_CONTROLLED=no in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (or set the appropriate option in system-config-network). -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Mathematical Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
