Re: New Etch install - IP address question

2007-01-27 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 00:46:50 -0500 Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Andrei, it seems enough people do an install and have this problem that the answer has become know to the debian-user list. Now I know very little about zeroconf but it seems to me that it would be

Re: New Etch install - IP address question

2007-01-27 Thread Joey Hess
Andrei Popescu wrote: avahi-daemon recommends libnss-mdns libnss-mdns recommends zeroconf The link is pretty weak, but it still gets installed on a lot of systems, because aptitude installs recommends by default. Although thankfully recommends are ignored on initial installs. The

New Etch install - IP address question

2007-01-26 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Just installed Etch from the RC1 net install CD. Did standard install, updated everything to the latest etch packages from the Debian repository, and then installed xorg + kde. Everything *works fine*, but something is different about the network configuration that I don't understand, and hoping

Re: New Etch install - IP address question

2007-01-26 Thread Dave Ewart
On Friday, 26.01.2007 at 11:08 -0500, Tom Pfeifer wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /sbin/ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:13:20:F3:7A:03 inet addr:169.254.128.152 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0 inet6 addr: fe80::213:20ff:fef3:7a03/64 Scope:Link

Re: New Etch install - IP address question

2007-01-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:08:45 -0500 Tom Pfeifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Again, everything looks and works normally excecpt for the strange IP address. Just hoping someone can explain or provide a link to some information - thanks...(maybe this is related to IPv6 ?) These addresses are usually

Re: New Etch install - IP address question

2007-01-26 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:08:45 -0500 Tom Pfeifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Again, everything looks and works normally excecpt for the strange IP address. Just hoping someone can explain or provide a link to some information - thanks...(maybe this is related to IPv6 ?)

Re: New Etch install - IP address question

2007-01-26 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 06:50:46PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:08:45 -0500 Tom Pfeifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Again, everything looks and works normally excecpt for the strange IP address. Just hoping someone can explain or provide a link to some information -

Re: New Etch install - IP address question

2007-01-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 00:46:50 -0500 Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 06:50:46PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:08:45 -0500 Tom Pfeifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Again, everything looks and works normally excecpt for the strange IP