[Eug-lug] Odd report from ifconfig

[Mr O]

169 - internal IP.
Avahi - evil pain in the ascii auto config for the network.

End result - ignore and proceed as normal.

TBA,
MrO


--- Allen Brown <abrown at peak.org> wrote:

> What I don't understand is the eth1:avah entry.  I haven't
> brought
> up eth1 in close to a year.  There is nothing currently
> connected.
> Everything happens on eth0.  And where the heck did
> 169.254.5.111
> come from?
> 
> 
> $ ifconfig
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:E0:29:85:DC:4B
>            inet addr:192.168.11.2  Bcast:192.168.11.255 
> Mask:255.255.255.0
>            inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:29ff:fe85:dc4b/64 Scope:Link
>            UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>            RX packets:59006 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> frame:0
>            TX packets:57644 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> carrier:0
>            collisions:3 txqueuelen:1000
>            RX bytes:41947666 (40.0 MB)  TX bytes:15257542
> (14.5 MB)
>            Interrupt:19 Base address:0xa000
> 
> eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0F:EA:40:05:8B
>            UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>            RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>            TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> carrier:0
>            collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>            RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
>            Interrupt:20 Base address:0xc000
> 
> eth1:avah Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0F:EA:40:05:8B
>            inet addr:169.254.5.111  Bcast:169.254.255.255 
> Mask:255.255.0.0
>            UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>            Interrupt:20 Base address:0xc000
> 
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>            inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>            inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
>            UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>            RX packets:116 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> frame:0
>            TX packets:116 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> carrier:0
>            collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>            RX bytes:8039 (7.8 KB)  TX bytes:8039 (7.8 KB)
> -- 
> Allen Brown  abrown at peak.org 
> http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/
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