On 06.10.2011 08:56, Raf Czlonka wrote:
> What do you mean by "falls back to a random IP address"?
The interface is assigned an address in the range 169.254.0.0/16.
> What purpose unplugging the PC from the network has?
> Is it part of the lab?
Student bring their laptops and get the ethernet cable from the lab
computers. They do it frantically a few times, and the desktop
interface gets this address.
Not only dhclient might be setting this random address, but also the
Network Manager.
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