Re: Unwanted route in routeing table

["Shaun T. Erickson" <ste ste-land com>]

William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
> For some reason on all my RH 9 boxes I have a route that just shows up
> in my routing table. I am not sure what is putting it there. I have
> nothing abnormal at the moment. I have looked in all the places I know
> to look, but still have no explanation for it.
>
> When I enter route -n here is the output
>
> 192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
> 169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0 eth0
> 127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo
> 0.0.0.0         192.168.1.254   0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0
>
> Now where is this route coming from and how can I get rid of it
>
> 169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0 eth0
>
> I keep manually removing it, but if I reboot or restart the network it
> appears again.
>
> What is going on? I have more than one machine with this entry in the
> routing table.

The correct solution to get rid of it is to add the line:

NOZEROCONF=yes

to ALL interface config files. That means in ifcfg-eth0 AND ifcfg-lo AND 
 for any other interfaces you have. Doing this prevents the route from 
being set, and I've verified it on my RHL9 system. This is because ifup 
sets it for every interface.

	-ste