On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 09:56:16PM -0700, Paul Newell wrote: > > Fedora: > > Before I switched to F9, all my FC5 machines were happily chatting with > each other through a Linksys WRT54GL but none of them could see the net. > I upgraded one of them to F9 and it sees the net and can ssh to the > others. But the other two machines can no longer ssh into it F9 system. > I tried to play with things to fix it, but the best I could do was kill > the network connection so that the F9 system can't see the other machine > or the net. In other words, I screwed up. Since I can't figure out how > to get the network back alive by restoring prior conditions, I am > resigned to yet another re-install (the price of learning is lots of > starting over...) > > That being said, I was hoping to get a bit of advice. I suspect a change in Zeroconf since things appear mixed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeroconf If you have some hosts with 169.254.0.0/16 (link-local) addresses and some with private/ public network numbers you have a mix of link local and private nets we know what the issue is. "The technique for IPv4 is called IPv4 Link-Local address assignment (IPV4LL) in RFC 3927. However, Microsoft refers to this as Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA) or Internet Protocol Automatic Configuration (IPAC)." The Linksys is the same model I use and I have had no need to make changes You might have to reboot it once in a blue moon. I do keep IP addresses below xxx.yyy.zzz.100 for fixed services and let it assign DHCP from 100 up... There are four interesting network blocks for us common folk: 10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255 (10/8 prefix) 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255 (172.16/12 prefix) 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 (192.168/16 prefix) 169.254.0.0/16 - 169.254.255.255 (link-local 169.254.0.0/16 prefix) Link local sounds like "machines were happily chatting with each other through a Linksys WRT54GL but none of them could see the net" to me. -- Later mitch -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
