LFS section 9.3

[kitepilot at kitepilot.com]

Mike, 169.254.0.0/16 is telling you:
I can't get any other IP addrss.
169.254.0.0/16 is a special network, look at it at the WEB.
Check your link and your DHCO server.
ET 


Michael Havens writes: 

> I am all done with the linux from scratch base install but before I go on
> to beyond linux from scratch the recomendation is to install  some programs
> first. (lynx, gpm, sudo, openssl, openssh, wget, and parted)
> I installed lynx with no problems. Then, after unpacking gpm, and after I
> cd into the gpm directory, the terminal froze. I couldn't <enter> nor <^C>.
> I shut the terminal down and then started another one and now I can't ssh
> into the lfs box. I then just restarted the lfs box and then ran 'ip addr
> show' and it says the ip address isn't what it was. It was 192.168.0.14 but
> now it is 169.254.11.37/16 .
> Two questions,
> Why did it change from one private address to another and in another subnet?
> I'm thinking I'm going to need to start over from the beginning; is that so?
> Well, I guess three questions:
> How could I ssh into this network or else reassign the ip to something in
> the 192.168.x.y range
> :-)~MIKE~(-: