Network Mangler assigns other IP to eth0??

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 10:20 -0500, Claude Jones wrote:
> On Mon February 18 2008, Ric Moore wrote:
> > My eth0 interface keeps injecting this IP address
> > whois 169.254.136.49
> > [Querying whois.arin.net]
> > [whois.arin.net]
> >
> > OrgName:    Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
> > OrgID:      IANA
> > Address:    4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 330
> > City:       Marina del Rey
> > StateProv:  CA
> > PostalCode: 90292-6695
> > Country:    US
> >
> > I have my modem (ppp0) set to use dhcp and my ethernet card set to
> > static IP: 192.168.1.101, using network manager, but the SOB keeps
> > reverting eth0 back to 169.254.136.49. What's with that???
> >
> > I have no clue, but it's annoying as all hell because I have a local net
> > with drive mounts to and from my other machines. Looks like some
> > hand-edits are in order. Best suggestions? Ric
> 
> Forget that lookup you did. 169.254........ addresses are link-local addresses 
> used by zeroconf to assign an address when the device is set to use DHCP to 
> get an address, but no DHCP server is available. 
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-local_address
> 
> I can't speak to your setup, but, it sounds like your DHCP server is not 
> coming up before your card is attempting to be assigned an address. 

NetworkManager doesn't (yet) do static addresses or start-on-boot.  If
you want either of those, set

        NM_CONTROLLED=no
        
in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (or set the appropriate
option in system-config-network).
-- 
                Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Mathematical Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs