On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 10:47:15AM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Fri February 15 2008, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > > link-local 169.254.0.0 > > > > > > > > > what is this ^^^^^^^ > > > > Per google and wikipedia. > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-local_address > > > > Quite normal though. > > > > I have not read the context but this is FYI. > > ok, this seems to tell me when my eth0 is not working, then this defaults to > the local 169.xxx internal subnet and I won't have internet access.
AFAIK link-local 169.254.xxx.xxx addresses are used when there is no server. Could it be that your router is not answering? Try setting everything to static and see if it works. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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