Network anomalies since F8 install

[Simon Slater]

On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 17:50 +0930, Tim wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 17:39 +1000, Simon Slater wrote:
> > I must still be in the wrong place.  Turned avahi-daemon off in
> > runlevels 345 and rebooted, yet NM's connection information still has
> > a 169.254 address.  Should the next step be turn NM off and service
> > network on to see what happens then? 
> 
> I'm not sure of Network Manager works this way, but some other systems
> will re-use the last IP they had, as a default.
> 
> You are certain the daemon isn't running?
> 
service avahi-daemon status returns Avahi daemon is not running and
chkconfig --list has it off for all runlevels.

> I haven't seen any good information about how Network Manager works, I
> wonder if it also uses link-local addresses, internally.
> 
What I've found as NM docs is fairly superficial.  There must be some
somewhere.

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Regards
Simon