Network anomalies since F8 install

[max bianco]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 7:13 AM, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 19:30 -0400, max bianco wrote:
>  > 169.254.*.* is assigned when a DHCP server cannot be reached.
>
>  Yes, but something has to assign that - a service running on the same
>  computer, it doesn't magically happen by itself.  Otherwise, when there
>  isn't such a service to do that, the interface doesn't come up with any
>  IP.  ZeroConf is one of the things that can do that.
>

What besides zero conf will do it?

Max