ifconfig reports weird IP addr

[Rick Reynolds <rick@rickandviv.net>]

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
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