Em 21 de maio de 2011 10:51, W. Martin Borgert <deba...@debian.org>escreveu:

> On 2011-05-20 14:41, José Queiroz wrote:
> > Why are you using link-local addresses?
>
> I'm connecting an embedded device to a PC, so that the PC can
> access the GUI (web interface) of the device. Th link local
> address has the advantage, that there is very little
> configuration necessary for the end user and no address conflict
> will happen with the LAN of the user. For this no routing is
> necessary. However, in some situations it would be a nice extra
> if the PC could act as a router to e.g. a software repository.
>
> I can set the gateway manually on the device and it works fine
> (even if not intended by the IP standards), but at least the
> network-manager applet lacks, it seems, any settings for this.
> (NM applet is not used on the embedded device, but I used it as
> a tool to create NM configuration files.)
>

Can't this device work with DHCP?
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