[LBo] Link-local.

[Billy Pollifrone]

Geoff Jones wrote:
> 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,10000> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 10=
00
>     link/ether 00:0f:ea:19:01:2b brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
>     inet 169.254.95.93/16 brd 169.254.255.255 scope link eth0
>     inet 192.168.1.102/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global eth0
>     inet6 fe80::20f:eaff:fe19:12b/64 scope link

> My main question is where does 169.x.x.x get configured when I already ha=
ve a =

> dhcp server that can handle a simple home network [ - initially I suspect=
ed =

> the 169.x.x.x address on the local network was some sort of attack!].

It's aliased look at the network configs in etc. Grep recursively for
169. My question is why disable it any way? Is it hurting anything? If
debian is supporting zero configuration AIPA addressing then I say good.

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