Andrei POPESCU wrote: > [1] didn't bother to investigate whether these are using 'zeroconf' or > some other similar technology, they just work.
No they do not. It took me one whole day to find out why the networking was not working between a HP switch and a RHEL server with LACP enabled. Found out the guy that installed it did install the default which included avahi and who knows what else. In anycase avahi was trying to configure the LACP link which in result was causing the link to flip-flop between the interfaces. Always remove the crap! The other crap you mentioned - the Android - you can also remove. Amen!