Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 fallback configuration is ignored

2007-10-30 Thread Mark Shields
On 10/29/07, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 28 October 2007, Dan Farrell wrote: On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:19:13 + 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:

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 fallback configuration is ignored

2007-10-30 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 30 October 2007, Mark Shields wrote: On 10/29/07, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 28 October 2007, Dan Farrell wrote: On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:19:13 + Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 27 October 2007, Dan Farrell wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2007

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 fallback configuration is ignored

2007-10-29 Thread Mick
On Sunday 28 October 2007, Dan Farrell wrote: On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:19:13 + 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

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 fallback configuration is ignored

2007-10-29 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 07:51:52 + Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 fallback configuration is ignored

2007-10-28 Thread Mick
On Saturday 27 October 2007, Dan Farrell wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:58:11 +0930 Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is it by any chance assigning you a 169... address? Did you recently upgrade dhcpcd to ... around ... 3.1.6 I think? Anyway, it now tries zeroconf or whatever it's

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 fallback configuration is ignored

2007-10-28 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:19:13 + 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: is it by any chance assigning you a 169... address? Did you recently upgrade dhcpcd to ...

[gentoo-user] eth0 fallback configuration is ignored

2007-10-27 Thread Jules Colding
Hi, My /etc/conf.d/net says: config_eth0=( dhcp ) fallback_eth0=( 192.168.3.3/24 ) fallback_route_eth0=( default via 192.168.3.1 ) But dhcpcd is ignoring this. Instead it is using /var/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-eth0.info to set eth0. This looks like the '-E' option is used, but where? How can I make

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 fallback configuration is ignored

2007-10-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 13:48 +0200, Jules Colding wrote: Hi, My /etc/conf.d/net says: config_eth0=( dhcp ) fallback_eth0=( 192.168.3.3/24 ) fallback_route_eth0=( default via 192.168.3.1 ) But dhcpcd is ignoring this. Instead it is using /var/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-eth0.info to set eth0.

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 fallback configuration is ignored

2007-10-27 Thread Jules Colding
Hi Iain,. On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 21:58 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 13:48 +0200, Jules Colding wrote: Hi, My /etc/conf.d/net says: config_eth0=( dhcp ) fallback_eth0=( 192.168.3.3/24 ) fallback_route_eth0=( default via 192.168.3.1 ) But dhcpcd is

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 fallback configuration is ignored

2007-10-27 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:58:11 +0930 Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is it by any chance assigning you a 169... address? Did you recently upgrade dhcpcd to ... around ... 3.1.6 I think? Anyway, it now tries zeroconf or whatever it's called, to give you an address when there's no server