-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello redhat-list, I'm trying to put together a box that has a rather interesting networking need. Basically, its purpose in life is not to live on a network at all. However, it must be prepared to do so, so that someone can come in via TCP/IP to configure it for its real function. The two cases I care about are: 1) There is an existing network at the site, with a DHCP server doling out addresses. 2) There is basically nothing at the site, except maybe a Win2K box with an Ethernet port. I do not care about cases where there is a more complex network configuration, because I am most likely going to have to do something special for them, anyway. I do not care about cases that have nothing what-so-ever, as I am most likely going to have to haul my notebook PC along to do the config for them, turning it into one of the two cases that I *do* care about. So, basically and ideally, I need to have the machine come up and try to get a DHCP served address, etc. If it fails to do so, it would be extra nice if it would grab an un-used address from the 169.254.0.0/16 network. (BTW, this seems to be what Win2K does.) I've investigated the www.zeroconf.org stuff, and it looks promising. I had read that RH 9 and Fedora Core 1 incorporated this capability. So, I searched my offices for the floppy drive and CD-ROM drive to plug into a Toshiba Portege 3015CT and installed Fedora Core 1. (Due to ancientness and cruftiness of the CD-ROM drive, I ended up doing a network install.) Fedora came up fine and, when hooked to our main network (case #1, above) received an address from DHCP and inserted itself into DNS (Hooray!). (BTW, I had to eliminate the "rhgb" boot option to prevent full system hang when X tries to come up later.) Unfortunately, it appears that when I tested case #1, the only discernable affect of the Fedora Zeroconf stuff is to add a 169.254.0.0 route to the routing table. The PCMCIA Ethernet card is not brought up. It does not get assigned a 169.254.x.x address. Does anyone have any ideas on how I can accomplish this? We have put the box together with RH 8.0, but could probably be talked into something else. Thanks! Ron. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 Comment: Until recently, the last PGP with full source disclosure. iQA/AwUBQDP0/G8pw+2/9pUJEQI6dQCeMl6idexFKS1KZtuKRs32QXAqzhMAnitI geR1tHp4wbxpEUJ8JEEg27zd =n06j -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
