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Re: IP address depending on the MAC



On 06.10.2011 08:56, Raf Czlonka wrote:

> What do you mean by "falls back to a random IP address"?

The interface is assigned an address in the range 169.254.0.0/16.

> What purpose unplugging the PC from the network has?
> Is it part of the lab?

Student bring their laptops and get the ethernet cable from the lab computers. They do it frantically a few times, and the desktop interface gets this address.

Not only dhclient might be setting this random address, but also the Network Manager.

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Ireneusz (Irek) Szczesniak
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