Re: "Autoip"

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 20:01 -0400, Derek Broughton wrote:
> 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.  

Why can't it reach your DHCP server, but yet you are connected just fine
to your access point?  It seems the problem is that the DHCP server is
not responding, not what NM does when it can't find your DHCP server.

Dan

> 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.