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

[josephc at etards.net (josephc at etards.net)]

It's not Windows specific. 169.254/16 is a reserved block

see RFC 3330 for more info

-joe

On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Bill Horne wrote:

> dsr at tao.merseine.nu wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 09:54:37AM -0400, Duane Morin wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>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.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >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.
> >
> >ifconfig eth0:9
> >
> >-dsr-
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> 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
> 
> 
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