Finding my WLAN IP address.

[Derek Broughton]

steve wrote:

> | feisty at feisty-laptop:~$ ifconfig
> | eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:15:C5:C8:13:D1
> |           UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
...
> | eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:18:DE:98:C7:34
> |           UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
...
> | eth0:avah Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:15:C5:C8:13:D1
> |           inet addr:169.254.8.89  Bcast:169.254.255.255 
> |           Mask:255.255.0.0
> |           UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> |           Interrupt:22

> according to this your connected via eth0 ethernet.  not wireless.
> unplug and give ifdown eth0 and then ifup ath0 a shot, see what happens.

It doesn't really show that.  Because it didn't get any connection on eth0
or eth1, avahi set up a pseudo-connection - that's just the same address
that Windows will give you if you have no connection.
-- 
derek