On Mon, 08.02.10 09:03, Jen Chitty ([email protected]) wrote: > avahi-autoipd assigns an IPv4 link-local address in the 169.254/16 subnet. > The time at which avahi-autoipd runs depends upon your system's network > configuration. Network interfaces can be configured to only use DHCP, > only use a static IP, or only use Avahi. But sometimes systems are > configured to always run avahi-autoipd on an alias network interface > (e.g., on "eth0:avahi").
This is actually a bit misleading. Linux knows no alias ifaces anymore, just "labelled" addresses. If you use the obsolete BSD-like ifconfig tools this will be exposed for compat reasons as alias ifaces. If you use the newer iproute tools (i.e. "ip addr") you'll see the names shown properly for all adresses. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 _______________________________________________ avahi mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
