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.