On Mon February 18 2008, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > Forget that lookup you did. 169.254........ addresses are link-local > > addresses used by zeroconf to assign an address when the device is set to > > use DHCP to get an address, but no DHCP server is available. > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-local_address > > > > I can't speak to your setup, but, it sounds like your DHCP server is not > > coming up before your card is attempting to be assigned an address. > > NetworkManager doesn't (yet) do static addresses or start-on-boot. If > you want either of those, set > > NM_CONTROLLED=no > > in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (or set the appropriate > option in system-config-network). yes, that too - good catch, Matthew - I'd forgotten that bit about NM not handling statics... -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
