[GTALUG] 2 networks under ip (iproute2)

[James Knott]

On 02/27/2015 10:08 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   A general reply to everybody telling me I'm doing it wrong...
>
> 1) It's WAD (Working As Designed).  I'm doing what the instructions told
>    me to do.  YES!!!
>
> 2) It's an ancient model, that does not allow setting a static IP address
>
> 3) The setup works fine under ifconfig; but not under ip (iproute2).
>    Gentoo recently changed to iproute2 as the default networking suite.
>    I have to over-ride the default to get it working again.
>
> 4) A change of the default is usually a precursor to eventually getting
>    rid of support for the old default alltogether.  I want to get it
>    working under ip (iproute2) before Gentoo dumps support for ifconfig.
>

Does it not even allow DHCP?  If not then that is a really crappy piece
of hardware.

As mentioned, the setup you were running violates the IPv4 link local
RFC, so I doubt iproute2 will ever support it.