On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 19:04 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 20:32 +1000, Simon Slater wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 17:50 +0930, Tim wrote: > > > On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 17:39 +1000, Simon Slater wrote: > > > > I must still be in the wrong place. Turned avahi-daemon off in > > > > runlevels 345 and rebooted, yet NM's connection information still has > > > > a 169.254 address. Should the next step be turn NM off and service > > > > network on to see what happens then? > > > > > > I'm not sure of Network Manager works this way, but some other systems > > > will re-use the last IP they had, as a default. > > > > > > You are certain the daemon isn't running? > > > > > service avahi-daemon status returns Avahi daemon is not running and > > chkconfig --list has it off for all runlevels. > > > > > I haven't seen any good information about how Network Manager works, I > > > wonder if it also uses link-local addresses, internally. > > > > > What I've found as NM docs is fairly superficial. There must be some > > somewhere. > > Try looking in your desktop menu for "services" or "service management" > which will kick up a nice little gui. It'll show if "Network Manager" > and "Network Manager Dispatcher" are off. If so, stop them, and save the > configuration rules. Before you do anything, click on "Edit Run Level" > and select the last choice, "ALL" so you can see what is enabled at each > run level. It might be set to run on level 3 and not on level 5, which > might be a problem. I find it on my KDE menu under "Administration". > Great little application. Ric > Unfortunately your mail didn't get through 'till this afternoon. I've already disabled NM & NMDispatcher using chkconfig and turned network service on. I can now ping other boxes on the LAN and visa versa, but can't get out through the router. IP forwarding is on. Found something funny in the iptables of the router, so I'm going to check that thoroughly next. Strange thing is that all worked fine before re-installing F8. A few other things don't work now either that did before, but if I can get out through the router then can yum update. -- 'ooroo Simon Registered Linux User #463789. Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
