Carlos E. R. a écrit :

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Any time networkmanager fail to find a dhcp server (for example if there are none available :-)) it gives me the IP 169.254.16.90

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thanks, I never heard about this one before :-)) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 07:34 -0500, James Knott wrote:

jdd wrote:

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Hello :-))

Any time networkmanager fail to find a dhcp server (for example if there are none available :-)) it gives me the IP 169.254.16.90

shouldn't it continue searching (may be the server is just rebooting) and from where do this IP come?? (I have no idea, never used such one and nslookup dont give anything)

That's a "link local" address. The idea is you can connect two computers together, without benefit of a DHCP server or manual configuration. The 169.254.x.x range is supposed to be blocked by routers, so you should never see one of those addresses on the internet. Windows and Mac systems do it too.

"supposed to be" is indeed the right phrase ;-( I found out on several machines that with network manager enabled i got such address, and with traditional method i was able to obtain an address from my dhcp server. Switching back to networkmanager my suse machines were no longer able to get an address from the dhcp-server. So, networkmanager? Thanks, but no thanks! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org