"Autoip"

[Derek Broughton <auspex lincsat com>]

How do I prevent Network manager from doing this really annoying 
pseudo-connection with IP 169.254.56.71

NetworkManager: <information>^INo DHCP reply received.  Automatically 
obtaining IP via Zeroconf.
NetworkManager: <information>^Iautoip: Sending probe #0 for IP address 
169.254.56.71.

I suppose if you have no Internet connection but you do have a LAN, it might 
have some value - but really, most LANs have a DHCP server.  When I can't 
reach my DHCP server I don't WANT the system to think I'm network connected.  
All sorts of things start to happen when I connect - ntp, nntp, pop & imap 
clients all start to ask for data, and it's a whole lot easier just to tell 
my system the truth - that there's no network connection - than to try to 
change all their scripts.
-- 
derek