Re: Sid: Really strange network address stuff

[Andre Carezia <andre@carezia.srv.br>]

Curt Howland escreveu:

> I have no idea where this 169.254.185.184 is coming from. Until 
> 2.6.17, the DHCP server address of 192.168.1.16 was all that ever 
> showed up.

>From RFC 3330 (http://rfc.net/rfc3330.html):

  169.254.0.0/16 - This is the "link local" block.  It is allocated for
  communication between hosts on a single link.  Hosts obtain these
  addresses by auto-configuration, such as when a DHCP server may not
  be found.

ifconfig doesn't show all the addresses attached to a device. Try
running this:

  ip address show dev ath0

[]s,

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André Carezia
Eng. de Telecomunicações
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