On 07/21/14 22:55, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I have a headless system that I cannot connect to. So I was thinking to put a direct connection to it and my notebook. Both ethernets would use the zeroconf (169.254.0.0/16) addresses. I could then use fping > > fping -g 169.254.0.0/16 > > And SHOULD be able to get its address, and then SSH into the box. > > Any other thoughts? I can't get to the box to recable it and reboot it (as that is the only way I can figure out for it to readdress eth0) until this evening. To turn on zeroconf you need to modify the link to use BOOTPROTO=autoip. (Shows as "Local-Link" in the nm gui) You'll then have something along the lines of... [egreshko@f20f ~]$ route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 p2p1 224.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 240.0.0.0 U 1 0 0 p2p1 -- If you can't laugh at yourself, others will gladly oblige. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
