Re: Route to network 169.254.0.0

[Tom Diehl <tdiehl rogueind com>]

On Sat, 5 Jun 2004, Jesus Aneiros Sosa wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Could somebody explain me why RH is creatinng a route to the 169.254.0.0
> network even when I'm not using DHCP? The script which is responsable for
> this is /etc/sysconfig/netwok-scripts/ifup. It's checking the NOZEROCONF
> variable but I couldn't find any mention to this in RH
> /usr/share/doc/initscripts-x.xx

Last time I looked that set of documentation is horribly out of date and
incomplete. The best thing to do is rtfs.

> I know about zeroconf and APIPA from other sources.

IIRC it is in preparation for supporting zeroconf. I think it was added 
to the initscripts in the RHL 9 days. Personally I find it UGLY and turn
it off. I think this falls into the category of if you know it is there
you probably will never need it.

setting "NOZEROCONF=1" will do it. Actually setting NOZEROCONF to anything
will turn it off.

HTH,

Tom