Re: Route to network 169.254.0.0

[Tom Diehl <tdiehl rogueind com>]

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

> Thank you Tom. I did the same question at another list and the answer
> was: "Whys does it bother you?"

My response would have been because it is UGLY and useless. :-)

> I agree. But I couldn't find any mention from RedHat. It looks like an
> idea that was not completely implemented.

Would appear so.

> > setting "NOZEROCONF=1" will do it. Actually setting NOZEROCONF to anything
> > will turn it off.
> 
> Yes, I did it with NOZEROCONF=yes but as you say anything that makes the
> length of the string different from zero will do the job.

:-)

> Why did they introduce a new var that it's not mentioned in any place
> without checking besides the other variable BOOTPROTO=dhcp?

IIRC when this first appeared someone stated that they intended to impliment
more of the zeroconf stuff but I guess it is on hold/dropped. It may just
live on forever. OTOH if someome gets their giant round-tuit and puts it in
FC then it might just showup in RHEL someday. Until then NOZEROCONF=bugoff
will have to do. :-)

Regards,

Tom