Fedora and APIPA 169.254.x.x

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Di, den 13.01.2004 schrieb Dexter Ang um 04:56:

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> i'm sorry for not being clear. what i specifically want to happen is
> similar to what happens to windows. basically:
> 
> 1. upon boot, check if i can get an address from dhcp.
> 2. if i can, great, get address, and done. if not...
> 3. automatically set an ip address that doesn't conflict with anything
> else using apipa 169.254.x.x address range.
> 
> what currently happens is:
> 
> 1. upon boot, check if i can get an address from dhcp.
> 2. if i can, great, get address, and done. if not, eth0 isn't brought
> up, no ip address.
> 
> is there a way to set a default/"alternate" address in case i do not
> get an ip address from the dhcp server? that way windows machines can
> access me through my ip easily. any options i can put in
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0, or maybe a man page i can
> read about it, as i can't seem to find any help on options for the
> ifcfg-ethx scripts.
> 
> thanks!
> 
> dex

Should be easy to code in a few minutes. Just edit /sbin/ifup where it
handles DHCP configuration.

At the moment this is no option to be set in the config files.

Alexander


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