ken wrote:
On 10/30/2015 09:01 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
So I guess the strange IP address probably comes from some Lite-On device somewhere in my house - maybe on the server itself, an HP MicroServer. There are so many possible electronic culprits today.
You should be able to use nmap to scan the device.
Thanks very much for the suggestion, I'll try that.
Try putting this line IPV6INIT=no in the relevant config file, probably something like /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth? then restart your network.
I don't have a directory /etc/sysconfig/networking/ on my CentOS-7 server, but I have IPV6INIT=no in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-enp{23}s0 .
Incidentally, I haven't yet worked out how to get any useful information from nmap, as suggested by Johnny Hughes - I only get information about open ports, which is interesting but not relevant to my query about the 169.254.* address appearing in "arp -a" on my server. I looked at "man nmap" but there seem to be an infinity of options.