dhcpcd-discuss

I could see the same behaviour when I connected my Windows 7 laptop also.

On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 10:54 AM, shreesha vitthala <svit19@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a device running dhcpcd. When I remove the router connection it
> acquires a 169.x.x.x address automatically. But this works mostly when I
> disconnect my PC running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS from the network. I'm using this
> PC to develop and deploy firmware to the device.
> When the PC is connected dhcpcd mostly fails after this line -
>
>           eth0: probing for an IPv4LL address
>
> and ends up in segmentation fault.
> However when I use avahi the eth0:avahi adapter successfully acquires
> 169.x.x.x address even when my PC is connected.
>
> From the man page I could get below information but it is not sufficent
> for me to pin-point the cause for the failure -
> "
>
> When using IPv4LL, *dhcpcd* nearly always succeeds and returns an exit code
>      of 0.  In the rare case it fails, it normally means that there is a
>      reverse ARP proxy installed which always defeats IPv4LL probing.
> "
>
> I found that my PC has RARP installed but it is not running in my process
> list.
> The command I used to find this is "ps -ef|grep rarp"
>
> Can you please enlighen me on possible causes for this?
>
> Thanks and regards,
> Shreesha
>