Re: Sid: Really strange network address stuff
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 05:42:38PM -0400, Curt Howland wrote:
> I brought up my ath0 (madwifi driver 802.11G) a few hours ago, and
> just looked at the interface.
> ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:F9:FD:26:AB
> inet addr:169.254.185.184 Bcast:169.254.255.255
That looks like a zeroconf networking address. There's a bit of
information on zeroconf here:
http://wiki.debian.org/ZeroConf
(oh, and here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeroconf)
Cheers,
Paul
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