Network anomalies since F8 install

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Fri Apr 25 11:38:18 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 23:42 +0930, Tim wrote:
> Tim:
> >>  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.
> 
> 
> max bianco:
> > What besides zero conf will do it?
> 
> In Fedora's case, it's usually called Avahi.

huh, I had thought ZeroConf died and blew away way back in the Caldera
days. It was a good idea, but was cussed widely at the time. Ric

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