new network config- WAS: Re: New User- Network Problem

[Paul Cartwright <ale@pcartwright.com>]

On Fri February 15 2008, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > > link-local  169.254.0.0
> >
> >  
> >  what is this   ^^^^^^^
>
> Per google and wikipedia.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-local_address
>
> Quite normal though.
>
> I have not read the context but this is FYI.

ok, this seems to tell me when my eth0 is not working, then this defaults to 
the local 169.xxx internal subnet and I won't have internet access.



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