On Aug 24, 2009, at 6:07 PM, Ray Phillips wrote:
169.254/16 subnet is reserved for link-local autoconfiguration (cf ZeroConf / Bonjour). It wouldn't surprise me if ISC's dhcpd refuses to deal with that subnet range.Using this subnet does work on the other machine I mentioned.Try a RFC-1918 subnet instead....I've tried that but the symptom was the same.
OK. I don't suppose there's a chance that your kernel and userland libraries are out of sync about network data structures? (Going from the "Can't get interface flags for..." message.)
Have you checked/tried pkgsrc? Regards, -- -Chuck