strange routing table

[Jos Vos]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 11:15:34AM +0700, -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

It's used for "zeroconf" network configuration.  If you don't use/want
it, add "NOZEROCONF=yes" to /etc/sysconfig/network and it will not
appear again.

Cheers,

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