Re: Question about networking...

[Tom Dison <fretinator@yahoo.com>]

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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