On 10/29/07, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Sunday 28 October 2007, Dan Farrell wrote:
> > On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:19:13 +0000
> >
> > Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Saturday 27 October 2007, Dan Farrell wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:58:11 +0930
> > > >
> > > > Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > > This behaviour is called APIPA (Automatic PRivate IP Addressing)
> > > > (from /etc/conf.d/net.example):
> > > > # APIPA is a module that tries to find a free address in the range
> > > > # Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
> > > > # use APIPA to find a free address in the range
> > > > # 169.254.0.0-169.254.255.255
> > > >
> > > > It provides DHCP-like functionality without a DHCP server. Pretty
> > > > useless, unless you use it to configure all your IPs or a route for
> > > > that subnet.
> > >
> > > Even worse, if your DHCP server comes up later, your PC will still
> > > hold on to APIPA - not sure how this feature can be of any use to be
> > > honest, but most devices these days from MS Windows to PDAs tend to
> > > behave like this.
>
> Let me correct myself here: my Gentoo boxen behave like this. A WinXP
> that I
> tested for this purpose does not. It comes up with the APIPA address and
> when a router becomes available in the network later on, it readily
> obtains a
> dhcp address and drops the APIPA. Any idea how to configure Gentoo to do
> the
> same?
I think ifplugd does this.
eix ifplugd
* sys-apps/ifplugd
Available versions: 0.28-r7 ~0.28-r8 {doc}
Homepage: http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/ifplugd/
Description: Brings up/down ethernet ports automatically with
cable detection
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- Mark Shields
