ipv4ll fallback

[Thomas Charron]

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen
<rozzin at geekspace.com> wrote:
> Thomas Charron <twaffle at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>   Is there any easy way to configure dhcp to fallback to a link local
>> address, should dhcp requests fail?
>
> I'm not sure to what extent this is a Debian vs. upstream thing,
> but the version of avahi-autoipd that Debiain 6.0 ships includes
> an `exit hook' script that it registers with the ISC DHCP client
> in order to do exactly that (it just installs the script
> as /etc/dhcp/dhclient-exit-hooks.d/zzz_avahi-autoipd):
> if dhclient fails to raise a lease, it invokes avahi-autoipd
> to get an IPv4LL address as a last resort.

  *WHAM*!  Thank you VERY much, that's exactly what I needed!
Developers had made changes to avahi, I just tested it, easy fix.

  This is why LUG's are so helpful.  :-D

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-- Thomas