Network Mangler assigns other IP to eth0??

[Bill Davidsen]

Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> 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).

??? I don't have that in any of my FC[678] machines, and they just have 
the IP, NET, and NETMASK set. See ifcfg-lo for an example.

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