Re: ifconfig reports weird IP addr

[Wackojacko <wackojacko32@ntlworld.com>]

Rick Reynolds wrote:
> I've seen this behavior in etch for some time now.  I get an IP address 
> via DHCP and then I see this in ifconfig output:
>
> eth-wlan  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:60:B3:1E:D2:BB
>           inet addr:169.254.214.99  Bcast:169.254.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0
>           inet6 addr: fe80::260:b3ff:fe1e:d2bb/64 Scope:Link
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:84503 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:76161 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:54924763 (52.3 MiB)  TX bytes:7788590 (7.4 MiB)
>           Interrupt:11 Base address:0xc000
>
> No, that address shown is NOT my IP address.  :)
>
> I have udev rules in place to rename eth0 and eth1 to eth-lan and 
> eth-wlan, respectively.  But I'm very sure that I used to be able to see 
> my real IP address via ifconfig, even with the udev renaming.
>
> So what's going on here?
>
> Thanks,
> Rick Reynolds

If you have installed zeroconf, its installed as a recommends to other 
packages, purge it and restart your networking.

HTH

Wackojacko