[avahi] Avahi-autoipd Help.

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 21.04.09 11:46, Andres E. Rodriguez Lazo (andreserl at gmail.com) wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I've installed avahi-autoipd only on a Fedora 11 VM. I'm trying to assign an
> interface called eth1 an IP address thourgh avahi-autoipd command, and it
> tries to bind the address but it keeps conflicting. Do you know why this is
> happening and it cant assign an address? This is what it shows to me:

Dunno. Might have something to do with the bridging logic of your VM
solution. Try wireshark to find out if there actually are conflicting
ARP packets sent out.

> 
> [root at localhost ~]# avahi-autoipd eth1
> Found user 'avahi-autoipd' (UID 499) and group 'avahi-autoipd' (GID 499).
> Successfully called chroot().
> Successfully dropped root privileges.
> Starting with address 169.254.2.176
> Callout BIND, address 169.254.2.176 on interface eth1
> Received conflicting normal ARP packet.
> Callout CONFLICT, address 169.254.2.176 on interface eth1
> Trying address 169.254.189.32
> Callout BIND, address 169.254.189.32 on interface eth1
> Received conflicting normal ARP packet.
> Callout CONFLICT, address 169.254.189.32 on interface eth1
> Trying address 169.254.39.206
> Callout BIND, address 169.254.39.206 on interface eth1
> Received conflicting normal ARP packet.
> Callout CONFLICT, address 169.254.39.206 on interface eth1
> Trying address 169.254.66.131
> Callout BIND, address 169.254.66.131 on interface eth1
> Received conflicting normal ARP packet.
> Callout CONFLICT, address 169.254.66.131 on interface eth1
> Trying address 169.254.223.251
> 
> And so on.
> 
> Thanks for yor help
> 

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Lennart

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