Scott, That link gives me a missing article error.
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Scott Force <scooby.fo...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 a topic in the > Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/beagleboard/XmuVWcAERpU/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Scott A. Macri Senior Software Engineer The RoRing Rage <http://www.ScottMacri.com> (571) 234-1581 -- 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.