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Re: Question about networking...



What is zeroconf?

Ken

On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 11:33, Tom Dison wrote:
> This is all a symptom of Zeroconf. I don't like it
> either!
> 
> 
> --- Ken Keefe <kjkeefe@siu.edu> wrote:
> > After monkeying with my networking settings a little
> > I have
> > inadvertently altered something in the boot process.
> > Now when it gets to
> > bringing up eth0 it takes a very long time and then
> > reports something
> > that I have never seen it report before:
> > 
> > Bringing Up eth0 *long pause* zcip[987]: Retrieving
> > address
> > 127.255.255.255 for eth0:9
> > *pause*
> > zcip[987]: sending probe 1 for 127.255.255.255
> > *pause*
> > zcip[987]: sending probe 3 for 127.255.255.255
> > *pause*
> > zcip[987]: claiming ownership of address
> > 127.255.255.255
> > zcip[988]: watching for collisions
> > 					[  OK  ]
> > 
> > ----
> > 
> > All of the lines with the "zcip" on it are all new.
> > Can someone explain
> > what is going on? It really slows down my boot up.
> > Any suggestions for
> > speeding things back up?
> > 
> > Another odd thing is that when I do ifconfig, I get
> > the following two
> > entries. What is eth0:9??? I used to get this same
> > thing when I was
> > struggling to get my wireless card working, ath0 and
> > ath0:9. 
> > 
> > eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr
> > 00:08:02:B9:75:1B
> >           UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> >           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> > frame:0
> >           TX packets:13 errors:0 dropped:0
> > overruns:0 carrier:0
> >           collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
> >           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:2646 (2.5 Kb)
> >           Interrupt:10 Base address:0x2000
> > Memory:40180000-40180038
> > 
> > eth0:9    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr
> > 00:08:02:B9:75:1B
> >           inet addr:127.255.255.255 
> > Bcast:127.255.255.255 
> > Mask:255.0.0.0
> >           UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> >           Interrupt:10 Base address:0x2000
> > Memory:40180000-40180038
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks ahead of time,
> > Ken
> > 
> > 
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