\nHowever, on my opensuse 11.1 box, it seems not automatically configured for that. When you open Yast -> Network Settings, edit the network interface and enable “zeroconf” under “dynamic address”.
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<\/a>\nAll easy peasy and intuitive.<\/p>\n
But now comes the catch! After applying these settings, it works… but stops working after a few secs\/mins! I checked the messages log and found out the dhcp client tries to restore the old lease if it doesn’t receive an offer. This causes the zeroconf address to be invalidated. So, before enabling Zeroconf, be sure to release the lease first. You can do this as follows:<\/p>\n
Possibly if you keep the DHCP+Zeroconf setting in yast, you can just release the lease when you want to setup a local network and it would fallback to zeroconf. Didn’t verify it though (had to go online to document this ;))<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Since I don’t own a gigabit router but I do have Gbit NICs on my laptop and main computer, I set up a peer to peer network for optimal performance when I have to transfer a large volume. I don’t do that often so I end up losing time every time. So I decided to … Continue reading Configuring an ad hoc network on suse<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-suse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}sudo dhclient -r<\/code><\/p>\n