On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 02:16:03PM +0000, Peter Salisbury wrote: > Package: zeroconf > Followup-For: Bug #351540 > > zeroconf was installed automatically and caused various network > problems because it overwrites the ip address and broadcast address > for eth0. > This interface was configured in /etc/network/interfaces as static so > should not be overwritten. > Installing zeroconf should give a warning if this is the expected > behaviour. > Because it was installed automatically (via a recommends) it took me a > long while to find the problem. zeroconf never overwrites information; it only adds an address.
If you are using 'ifconfig' to determine address information be aware that ifconfig will frequently *not* report things. You are better off using 'ip addr'. Anand -- `When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know," the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives' -- Robert A Heinlein, "If this goes on --" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
