Re: F9 Networkmanager and zeroconf



On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 22:23 +0800, hanpingtian gmail com wrote:
> Before I am going to active the pppoe interface, I must active the
> eth0 first.

I'm not sure this is necessary.  What's your network like?  Is the modem
connected directly to your computer?

Dan

> I use dhcp to give a IP address to eth0. But indeed there is no dhcp
> server 
> in my network. In F8, the NM will get a autoip for eth0 by zeroconf.
> But in
> F9, it wouldn't do the same thing for me. So I cound active the
> pppoe. 
> 
> Could you tell me how to get a "autoIP" connection in the NM? It seems
> there is
> not such a option in the "/usr/bin/nm-connection-editor".
> 
> 
> 2008/6/24 Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>:
>         
>         On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 22:08 +0800, hanpingtian gmail com
>         wrote:
>         > hi,
>         >
>         > It seems that in F8, when nm failed to get a DHCP reply, it
>         will use
>         > zeroconf to get a IP address for NIC. It's something like
>         this(fedora 8 log):
>         > ...
>         > Jun  8 09:27:21 freeopen avahi-daemon[2073]: Registering new
>         address
>         > record for fe80::216:ecff:fec0:f990 on eth0.*.
>         > Jun  8 09:27:27 freeopen dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to
>         > 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
>         > Jun  8 09:27:35 freeopen dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to
>         > 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 18
>         > Jun  8 09:27:53 freeopen dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to
>         > 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 17
>         > Jun  8 09:28:05 freeopen NetworkManager: <info>  Device
>         'eth0' DHCP
>         > transaction took too long (>45s), stopping it.
>         > Jun  8 09:28:05 freeopen NetworkManager: <info>  eth0:
>         canceled DHCP
>         > transaction, dhclient pid 6097
>         > Jun  8 09:28:05 freeopen NetworkManager: <info>  Activation
>         (eth0)
>         > Stage 4 of 5 (IP Configure Timeout) scheduled...
>         > Jun  8 09:28:05 freeopen NetworkManager: <info>  Activation
>         (eth0)
>         > Stage 4 of 5 (IP Configure Timeout) started...
>         > Jun  8 09:28:05 freeopen NetworkManager: <info>  No DHCP
>         reply
>         > received.  Automatically obtaining IP via Zeroconf.
>         > Jun  8 09:28:05 freeopen NetworkManager: <info>  autoip:
>         Sending probe
>         > #0 for IP address 169.254.158.8.
>         > Jun  8 09:28:05 freeopen NetworkManager: <info>  autoip:
>         Waiting for reply...
>         > Jun  8 09:28:06 freeopen NetworkManager: <info>  autoip: Got
>         some data
>         > to check for reply packet.
>         > Jun  8 09:28:06 freeopen NetworkManager: <WARN>
>          get_autoip(): autoip:
>         > (eth0) recv arp type=2054, op=1,
>         > Jun  8 09:28:06 freeopen NetworkManager: <WARN>
>          get_autoip():  source
>         > = 199.199.194.2 00:0F:E2:61:F7:8B,
>         > Jun  8 09:28:06 freeopen NetworkManager: <WARN>
>          get_autoip():  target
>         > = 199.199.194.2 0E:2A:65:B5:37:07#012
>         > Jun  8 09:28:06 freeopen NetworkManager: <info>  autoip:
>         Sending probe
>         > #1 for IP address 169.254.158.8.
>         > Jun  8 09:28:06 freeopen NetworkManager: <info>  autoip:
>         Waiting for reply...
>         > Jun  8 09:28:07 freeopen NetworkManager: <info>  autoip: Got
>         some data
>         > to check for reply packet.
>         > Jun  8 09:28:07 freeopen NetworkManager: <WARN>
>          get_autoip(): autoip:
>         > (eth0) recv arp type=2054, op=1,
>         > ...
>         > BUT, it seems that in F9, nm doesn't use zeroconf anymore.
>         It just
>         > failed when cannot get a DHCP rely.
>         
>         
>         Right; if you want zeroconf on the adapter you set specify
>         "AutoIP" mode
>         in the connection editor.
>         
>         > This is very bad for me. I am using a pppoe connection. This
>         new
>         > behavior make the pppoe's NIC failed to
>         > get a IP address and ppp dial will fail.
>         
>         
>         I'm not sure I understand how DHCP plays into your network
>         setup.
>         AFAIK, with PPPoE, NM should be starting PPPoE on your NIC and
>         PPP will
>         return the IP address that you need to use.  There shouldn't
>         be any DHCP
>         going on when using PPPoE.
>         
>         You can set up a real PPPoE connection from the "DSL" tab of
>         the
>         connection editor (/usr/bin/nm-connection-editor, or
>         right-click the
>         applet's icon and choose "Edit Connections...").
>         
>         Dan
>         
>         
> 



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