Re: New Etch install - IP address question
Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:08:45 -0500
> Tom Pfeifer <tpfeife1@optonline.net> wrote:
>
>
>>Again, everything looks and works normally excecpt for the strange IP
>>address. Just hoping someone can explain or provide a link to some
>>information - thanks...(maybe this is related to IPv6 ?)
>
>
> These addresses are usually assigned by the zeroconf package. You can
> (should) purge that.
>
> Regards,
> Andrei
Yes, that was it - thanks.
zeroconf can also be disabled (as a test) in /etc/default/zeroconf
The other symptom of this is the output of route. It will have a
"link-local" entry - which will show as 169.254.0.0 with route -n
Tom
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