removing the package: zeroconf
solved this issue for me. On Fri, 08 Jul 2005, Alan Chandler delivered in simple text monotone: > On Friday 08 July 2005 07:54, Arias Hung wrote: > > Okay, I've been having this exact same problem the last week or two and > > have had to resort to manually bringing up eth0 with dhclient. > > > > the auto ifup always assigns me that bogus 169.254.x.x address too ... very > > annoying. > > > > What I think this is related to though for me is a recent aborted install > > of vmware, in which some sort of virtual bridge was setup to co-exist on > > eth0. > > > I think the symptoms are very much like that. It is almost as though hotplug > or discover are doing something with the interface before ifup gets at it. (I > have set /etc/default/hotplug to have > > NET_AGENT_POLICY=hotplug > > so it should only grab interfaces which are explicitly mentioned as hotplug > controlled in /etc/network/interfaces. I have none of that. > > The other thing that I was thinking about was maybe my initrd did something > with the interface which screwed ifup. > > lastly, if I take networking down on a running system and then use ifup I get > these sit0: devices mentions - where do they come from? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] alan # ifup eth0 > Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5 > Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium. > All rights reserved. > > Please contribute if you find this software useful. > For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html > > sit0: unknown hardware address type 776 > sit0: unknown hardware address type 776 > Listening on LPF/eth0/00:50:da:cf:a5:06 > Sending on LPF/eth0/00:50:da:cf:a5:06 > Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net > DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 > DHCPACK from 192.168.0.20 > SIOCSIFADDR: File exists > bound to 192.168.0.21 -- renewal in 10800 seconds. > RTNETLINK answers: Cannot assign requested address > [EMAIL PROTECTED] alan # > -- > Alan Chandler > http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <---Snip---> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
