On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 01:25:55PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 24 Feb 2023 at 19:41:26 (+0100), Christoph Brinkhaus wrote: > > Am Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 10:09:34PM +0700 schrieb Max Nikulin:
.... > > > > > > I mean IPv4 link local addresses 169.254.x.y. My impression is that > > > avahi-autoipd was created for the cases when there is no point to setup > > > centralized DHCP server. On the other hand I agree that a router (and so > > > DHCP out of the box) is more wide spread configuration than connecting a > > > couple of devices directly or through a switch. > > > > I think so, too. > > Well, you typically only get a level of Recommended for avahi-autoipd > when you install on a laptop, which is a reasonable choice for the > debian-installer to make. Otherwise it's either a Suggests, or the > sysadmin has to choose it off their own bat. But I guess their are > a lot of laptops, now they are affordable, that aren't really used > in the way they were intended, but just as more flexible desktops. Having `apt purge avahi-autoipd` still gets me "auto IPv4 address" Ideas how to avoid it are welcome. <screenshot> $ dpkg -l '*avahi*ip*' Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-==============-============-============-================================= un avahi-autoipd <none> <none> (no description available) $ uptime 22:45:25 up 1 min, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.04, 0.05 $ ip route | grep system 169.254.0.0/16 dev ovs-system scope link src 169.254.201.7 metric 1004 $ </screenshot> Groeten Geert Stappers -- Silence is hard to parse