On 02/27/2015 10:08 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > A general reply to everybody telling me I'm doing it wrong... > > 1) It's WAD (Working As Designed). I'm doing what the instructions told > me to do. YES!!! > > 2) It's an ancient model, that does not allow setting a static IP address > > 3) The setup works fine under ifconfig; but not under ip (iproute2). > Gentoo recently changed to iproute2 as the default networking suite. > I have to over-ride the default to get it working again. > > 4) A change of the default is usually a precursor to eventually getting > rid of support for the old default alltogether. I want to get it > working under ip (iproute2) before Gentoo dumps support for ifconfig. >
Does it not even allow DHCP? If not then that is a really crappy piece of hardware. As mentioned, the setup you were running violates the IPv4 link local RFC, so I doubt iproute2 will ever support it. --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
