On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 19:30 -0400, max bianco wrote: > 169.254.*.* is assigned when a DHCP server cannot be reached. Yes, but something has to assign that - a service running on the same computer, it doesn't magically happen by itself. Otherwise, when there isn't such a service to do that, the interface doesn't come up with any IP. ZeroConf is one of the things that can do that. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list