April 30, 2015

Disable IPv4 autoconfiguration for 169.254 duplicate addresses

Quick description

  • static IPs configured on various Windows servers running under VMware
  • after reboot they show both the static configured IP as well as a 169.254.10.50 (example)
  • the invalid IP shows as "prefered"

Fix

  • disable autoconfiguration
    • netsh interface ipv4 show inter
    • netsh interface ipv4 set interface 11 dadtransmits=0 store=persistent
  • disable DHCP client service
  • reboot