<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"> </head> <body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"> <div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.9899997711182px; widows: 1;">- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS loaded on an Intel NUC </span><br style="line-height: 15.9899997711182px; widows: 1;"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.9899997711182px; widows: 1;">- Unplug eth0 from network with dhcp server </span><br style="line-height: 15.9899997711182px; widows: 1;"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.9899997711182px; widows: 1;">- As expected, dhcp client withdraws its address and a few seconds later, avahi-autoipd will generate a 169 address. All looks good.</span><br style="line-height: 15.9899997711182px; widows: 1;"> <span style="widows: 1;"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 15.9899997711182px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 15.989999771118164px;">—</span><span style="line-height: 15.9899997711182px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 15.989999771118164px;">I</span><span style="line-height: 15.9899997711182px;"> do see the syslog messages from autoipd picking a LL address</span></font></span></div> <div><span style="widows: 1;"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 15.9899997711182px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 15.989999771118164px;">—</span><span style="line-height: 15.9899997711182px;"> the eth0:avahi interface is seen and has the 169 address</span></font></span><br style="line-height: 15.9899997711182px; widows: 1;"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.9899997711182px; widows: 1;">- Connect eth0 directly to my macbook. It also has a 169 address.</span><br style="line-height: 15.9899997711182px; widows: 1;"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.9899997711182px; widows: 1;">- For maybe a minute, the macbook can ping the ubuntu system (using hostname.local or actual ip addr)</span><br style="line-height: 15.9899997711182px; widows: 1;"> <span style="widows: 1;"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 15.9899997711182px;">- Then, the eth0:avahi </span><span style="line-height: 15.9899997711182px;">interface and its LL address goes away</span></font></span><br style="line-height: 15.9899997711182px; widows: 1;"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.9899997711182px; widows: 1;"> -- This seems to follow the syslog message:</span><br style="line-height: 15.9899997711182px; widows: 1;"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.9899997711182px; widows: 1;"> Jun 11 13:43:54 z4k NetworkManager[700]: <info> (eth0): deactivating device (reason 'carrier-changed') [40]</span><br style="line-height: 15.9899997711182px; widows: 1;"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.9899997711182px; widows: 1;"> -- There are a bunch of other network manager log messages, all seem to be trying to do somethin to eth0</span><br style="line-height: 15.9899997711182px; widows: 1;"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.9899997711182px; widows: 1;">- If I then "avahi-autoipd --kill eth0" and then restart it, all is good once again... for a little while.</span></div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> - There are no other enabled interfaces (wlan is the only other available and it is disabled)</div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> - And I do not think I did anything unusual otherwise — pretty typical install (done last night)</div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> <br style="line-height: 15.9899997711182px; widows: 1;"> <span style="line-height: 15.9899997711182px; widows: 1;">I have spent hours and hours on this... seems pretty basic, so I hope I'm just not doing something really dumb.</span><br style="line-height: 15.9899997711182px; widows: 1;"> <span style="line-height: 15.9899997711182px; widows: 1;">Any help would be really, really appreaciated!!!!</span><br style="line-height: 15.9899997711182px; widows: 1;"> <br style="font-family: Ubuntubeta, Ubuntu, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.9899997711182px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(235, 236, 228);"> <span style="font-family: Ubuntubeta, Ubuntu, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.9899997711182px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(235, 236, 228);">Jeremy</span></div> </body> </html>