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 Message 21796 
 Jim Diamond to All 
 Re: RPi associating two IPs with its one 
 07 Jan 26 15:30:01 
 
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On 2026-01-05 at 18:21 AST, attend  wrote:
> On 27/12/2025 17:34, Jim Diamond wrote:
>> I was looking at my network and discovered an IP which I didn't know about;
>> after a few seconds of investigation I discovered that one of my Pis (which
>> is on wifi only, and only has one wifi card) has two IPs.

>> Two of my other Pis are running the same version of Raspberry Pi OS (i.e.,
>> "Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)").  They don't do this.

>> Looking around the net, there are claims that this is because Pis might try
>> to netboot, and that later on in the boot process they also get their usual
>> IP the "usual" way.  (In my case I am using networkmanager.)

>> I can't imagine what I did to make one of my Pis want to (try to) netboot.

>> Has anyone here seen this, and, if so, know what grievous sins I have
>> committed to make this happen?  And how to make it stop?

>> Thanks.
>> Jim

> I had smililar problem when I upgraded to Bullseye. My solution was 
> deleted connman package.

> Refer to 
> https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/133318/how-to-
isable-the-dynamic-ip-address-after-assigning-a-static-ip-in-bullseye

Thanks for the pointer, but that wasn't it.

The system in question (as well as my other systems) doesn't (respectively,
don't) have connman installed.

(I have a feeling I might not have named a piece of software "connman",
even though I can imagine where they got that name.)

                                Jim

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