strange routing table

[Ben Stringer]

On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 15:15, -iYung- wrote:
> Why do I have this routing address on my routing table:
> 
> # route -n
> 
> Destination  Gateway    Genmask   Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
> ***          ***		**	    *     *     *   *    *
> 169.254.0.0  0.0.0.0  255.255.0.0   U     0     0   0   eth1
> 
> the subnet 169.254.0.0 always appear on every machine i installed with FC1.
> sometimes its on eth0, other on eth1

I had never noticed this!

It is there because /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup is adding it. It
is described as a zeroconf route and seems be there as a DHCP fallback.
This link has some explanation.

http://smtp.openna.com/pipermail/openna-linux/2003-November/000179.html

Cheers, Ben