Re: Still not fixed ipup problem. (solved)
removing the package:
zeroconf
solved this issue for me.
On Fri, 08 Jul 2005, Alan Chandler delivered in simple text monotone:
> On Friday 08 July 2005 07:54, Arias Hung wrote:
> > Okay, I've been having this exact same problem the last week or two and
> > have had to resort to manually bringing up eth0 with dhclient.
> >
> > the auto ifup always assigns me that bogus 169.254.x.x address too ... very
> > annoying.
> >
> > What I think this is related to though for me is a recent aborted install
> > of vmware, in which some sort of virtual bridge was setup to co-exist on
> > eth0.
>
>
> I think the symptoms are very much like that. It is almost as though hotplug
> or discover are doing something with the interface before ifup gets at it. (I
> have set /etc/default/hotplug to have
>
> NET_AGENT_POLICY=hotplug
>
> so it should only grab interfaces which are explicitly mentioned as hotplug
> controlled in /etc/network/interfaces. I have none of that.
>
> The other thing that I was thinking about was maybe my initrd did something
> with the interface which screwed ifup.
>
> lastly, if I take networking down on a running system and then use ifup I get
> these sit0: devices mentions - where do they come from?
>
> root@kanger alan # ifup eth0
> Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5
> Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium.
> All rights reserved.
>
> Please contribute if you find this software useful.
> For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html
>
> sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
> sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
> Listening on LPF/eth0/00:50:da:cf:a5:06
> Sending on LPF/eth0/00:50:da:cf:a5:06
> Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net
> DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
> DHCPACK from 192.168.0.20
> SIOCSIFADDR: File exists
> bound to 192.168.0.21 -- renewal in 10800 seconds.
> RTNETLINK answers: Cannot assign requested address
> root@kanger alan #
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