Stupied network - Why can't it be friendly?

[Charles R. Anderson]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 10:13:04AM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> For your local crossover links question, NM supports static IP addresses
> that you've configured with system-config-network (NetworkManager pulls
> config info from /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-* files), so if
> you have that set up, your crossover connection between two computers
> should work fine.

Does NetworkManager support automatic link-local addressing
(169.254.x.x with duplicate IP detection/prevention)?  Then no
preconfigured static addressing would be needed for ad-hoc connections
like this.