What's eth0:9? (Re: WiFi with mandrake

[Bill Horne]

dsr at tao.merseine.nu wrote:

>On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 09:54:37AM -0400, Duane Morin wrote:
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>>I've also noticed that after bootup I've got an "eth0:9" listing in my 
>>ifconfig output.  What is that?  eth0 does not have an IP associated with 
>>it, but this eth0:9 thing has a "169.254.41.250" address which is unknown 
>>to me since I'm on the usual 192.168.x.x.
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>Interfaces can have sub-interfaces with separate IPs. In this case, the
>10th sub-interface of eth0 has been configured. No, I don't know why.
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>ifconfig eth0:9
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>-dsr-
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169.254.x.x are Microsoft's default addresses for interfaces which are 
set up to use DHCP, but can't find a DHCP server. I don't know how 
you're getting them in Mandrake.

HTH.

Bill Horne