Re: Sid: Really strange network address stuff

[Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk>]

On (22/08/06 17:42), Curt Howland wrote:
> DHCPOFFER from 192.168.1.1
> DHCPREQUEST on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
> DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1
> bound to 192.168.1.16 -- renewal in 432000 seconds.
> ~ # ifconfig
> ath0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:11:F9:FD:26:AB
>           inet addr:169.254.185.184  Bcast:169.254.255.255  
> Mask:255.255.0.0
>           inet6 addr: 2000::26ab/64 Scope:Global
>           inet6 addr: fe80::26ab/64 Scope:Link
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:63500 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:50883 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>           RX bytes:48921067 (46.6 MiB)  TX bytes:8011862 (7.6 MiB)
> - ---------------------------
> 
> 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.

Have you installed any network 'security' packages?  I installed one
whose name I can't recall and it obfuscated the IP address in the way
you describe. I've wiped that installation since then, so can't check
what the package was.

Regards

Clive

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