Re: DHCP fall back to link-local? (IPv4)

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 15:14 +0100, Marc Herbert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   Is there any way to tell Network Manager to fall back on link-local
> configuration when DHCP fails? Something like:
> 
>          <entry name="method" type="string">
>                  <stringvalue>auto,link-local</stringvalue>

Shouldn't NM just retry DHCP a few times?  What's the use-case here?

> I have browsed mailing list archives and bug trackers for ages but found
> only old and conflicting information. Any help?
> 
> I am running version 0.7.0.99 release 5.git20090326.fc10. Either "auto"
> or "link-local" works fine; but I would like to get both! (More exactly
> one after the other)
> 
> 
> By the way I am not able to get rid of the "Auto eth0" phantom
> connection. Is this a problem? I think it could be related because in the
> lack of a DHCP server my personal "auto" connection is falling back on
> this phantom connection (which obviously fails the same).

The "auto eth0" is likely provided by the system-settings-service
because you don't have a system setting for your device.  If you were to
create one, it would go away.  You can do that either from your distros
normal network config tools, or from the connection editor if your
distro has write support in its system settings plugin.

Dan