On 22/10/2023 23:29, gene heskett wrote:
My whole home net has no
dhcp server, host files do it all.
NM, and avahi, seems to want to assign a default route in the 169 block
if it cannot find a dns server,
[...]
IF I can prevent NM and avahi
from assigning a totally bogus 169. route, it just works.
NetworkManager supports static network configuration and it has been
working for years.
Of course, by default it tries to get configuration from a DHCP server.
A connection with a static address may be created even from GUI.
There was a thread several months ago with discussion of link local
169.254.x.y addresses. They may coexist with dynamic or static IP
addresses. avahi-autoipd (avahi is another daemon) just tries to make at
least some network resources available for you. It is not a fault of
avahi-autoipd or NetworkManager that your configuration expects DHCP
response on a network where static addresses are used.
