This sounds like an issue that some other people are having. Take a look at the postings with a subject of "BeagleBone Rev. A4 ethernet issue<http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=e55f5117%2de59e%2d4d4e%2d9673%2d5d416bc6a1c4%5f%5f32795.8999936984%241327625928%24gmane%24org%40c6g2000vbk.googlegroups.com> "
On Friday, 7 February 2014 08:55:53 UTC-5, sels...@gmail.com wrote: > > On 07/02/14 02:51, hacktorious wrote: > > > Why on earth is my BBB obtaining an ip from an external source when > > connected via eth0??? > > It's not. It's providing it's own address. You likely want it to get an > address from an external source - the DHCP server on your router.. > > > Internally dhcp is distributing 192.168 something, but the BBB is > getting > > 169. something. I'm not able to get internet access from the BBB, but > if I > > visit the ip address I can see my BBB's website........ WTF????? This > is > > total insanity!!! > > 169.254.x.x are IPv4 link-local autoconfigured addresses. i.e. the BBB > didn't get a DHCP response and picked a random 169.254.x.x address itself > instead. > It should still broadcast for DHCP, so if your DHCP server ever starts > handing out addresses it should pick one up and start working. > > See http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3927 for an explanation of IPv4 link > local > addresses. > > > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
