I've seen this behavior in etch for some time now. I get an IP address
via DHCP and then I see this in ifconfig output:
eth-wlan Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:B3:1E:D2:BB
inet addr:169.254.214.99 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
inet6 addr: fe80::260:b3ff:fe1e:d2bb/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:84503 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:76161 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:54924763 (52.3 MiB) TX bytes:7788590 (7.4 MiB)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xc000
No, that address shown is NOT my IP address. :)
I have udev rules in place to rename eth0 and eth1 to eth-lan and
eth-wlan, respectively. But I'm very sure that I used to be able to see
my real IP address via ifconfig, even with the udev renaming.
So what's going on here?
Thanks,
Rick Reynolds
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