Re: its been done again. No network

[gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>]

On Wednesday, 23 March 2022 20:40:49 EDT gene heskett wrote:
> Greetings all;
> 
> Just installed a arm64 linux on a raspi4, and as near as I can tell
> early in the game, everything seem to be working except the network. I
> cannot get rid of a default 169.254.xx.yy route in ip a or ip r.
> 
> I have even renamed the /sbin/avahi-daemon to something insulting, and
> canceled its execute bits, and service networking restart about a dozen
> times after checking the rest of the networking config, but it is
> still there. There isn't a thing on my local network listening on that
> address block.
> 
> So how do I get rid of it so I can have a net with MY default route and
> bring it up to date?
> 
> Thanks all.

Never mind, I finally remembered that /etc/dhpdcp.conf had the last word 
if dns or other means failed, filled in the last two stanza's with good 
data and restarted the networking. Bingo I can ping yahoo.com.

Onward and hopefully upward.

> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett.
> --
> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
>  soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
> If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law
> respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis
> 
> 
> 
> .


Cheers, Gene Heskett.
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
 - Louis D. Brandeis