Re: [Sheflug] Changing distro woes

[Alex Hudson <home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 19:55 +0100, Lesley Binks wrote:
> And I have a host of issues with the concept that an unconfigured 
> interface should be assigned an IP address by anything.

Well, it assigns itself :)

> And why that assignment should then block all other routes out on cards that have 
> been configured.

It shouldn't - it shouldn't be setting up a route on its own, because
you (obviously) can't guess that kind of information. Link local mean
"local to the ethernet segment", not beyond.

The only thing I can think of is that you have a router or some other
device actually advertising that route?

> I reserve the right to manually configure and use either or both of them 
> as and when I see fit.  I don't see why the link-local address should be 
> assigned to an inactive interface nor why that assignment should then 
> screw up specifically assigned interfaces and routes.

That does sound like a bug worth reporting. I would suspect some
interaction between NetworkManager and Avahi, personally.

> # The primary network interface
> allow-hotplug eth0
^^

I've heard people having problems with that; auto eth0 sometimes solved
them. It also sounds more like what you're after (static configuration
come-what-may).

Cheers,

Alex.


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