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.
>>
>>
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