On Saturday 27 October 2007, Dan Farrell wrote: > On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:58:11 +0930 > > Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > is it by any chance assigning you a 169... address? Did you recently > > upgrade dhcpcd to ... around ... 3.1.6 I think? Anyway, it now tries > > "zeroconf" or whatever it's called, to give you an address when > > there's no server around. Personally I don't like it, but you can > > decide :) > > This behaviour is called APIPA (Automatic PRivate IP Addressing) > (from /etc/conf.d/net.example): > # APIPA is a module that tries to find a free address in the range > # Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA) > # use APIPA to find a free address in the range > # 169.254.0.0-169.254.255.255 > > It provides DHCP-like functionality without a DHCP server. Pretty > useless, unless you use it to configure all your IPs or a route for that > subnet.
Even worse, if your DHCP server comes up later, your PC will still hold on to APIPA - not sure how this feature can be of any use to be honest, but most devices these days from MS Windows to PDAs tend to behave like this. -- Regards, Mick
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