Yep. RedHat 9 introduces zeroconf, which you need to disable if you don't want it. Really, it's quite harmless, as the 169.254.x.x is a private network space, and isn't routable over Internet links.
-----Original Message----- From: antonio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 10:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: routing table Nick White wrote: >In RedHat 9 the 169.254.0.0/16 gets added to the routing table on boot. >Probably to play nicely with windows boxen. In Windows 2000+, if there >is no DHCP server available, an APIPA address (169.254.x.x) is assigned. > >To stop RedHat from using it, try adding the following line to >/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-* files: >NOZEROCONF='yes' > >For more info on zeroconf, see http://www.zeroconf.org/ > >Hope this helps, >Nick > >-----Original Message----- >From: antonio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 10:01 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: routing table > > >antonio wrote: > >An additional clue: > >in my office network that is very similar to my home network of my >previous message output of netstat .nr is: > > > >>Kernel IP routing table >>Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window >>irtt Iface >>192.168.100.1 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 40 0 >> >> > > > >>0 ppp0 >>192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 40 0 >> >> > > > >>0 eth0 >>192.168.254.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 40 0 >> >> > > > >>0 eth1 >>127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 40 0 >> >> > > > >>0 lo >>0.0.0.0 192.168.100.1 0.0.0.0 UG 40 0 >> >> > > > >>0 ppp0 >> >> > >where the entry 169.254.etc.etc.. is not present > > > Nick, you mean that the difference is connected basically to the fact that at home I am running RH9 while at office RH8.0??? Tnx Antonio -- ============================================== Written with Mozilla 1.4a on Linux RedHat 9 ============================================== -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
