I have installed linux red hat 9.0 and trying to run dhcpd on eth1. I have a liveip in eth0 and local ip (192.168.0.1 mask 255.255.255.0) on eth1. but when i do netstat -nr i am getting a new ip on eth1 (169.254.0.0 mask 255.255.255.0) and the dhcp client(windows) is also getting a ip 169.254.29.127. How do i get rid of this ip (169.254.0.0) and what do i do so that my clients get ip of (192.168.0.0) network.

This is the netstat -nr file that i see
# netstat -nr
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
202.141.148.24 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.248 U 0 0 0 eth0
192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
0.0.0.0 202.141.148.25 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0

Please help me so that i can configure my machine

Thanking you all
SAnjib Gupta

The netstat -nr shows you routes you have to local and remote networks, not IP addresses on your NIC. The line shows that you have a route to a nework 169.254/16 going via eth1. This may or may not be correct but shouldn't have anything to do with IP addresses.

Can you post the output of ifconfig -a, showing the actual IP addresses of your interfaces? If ent1 itself has an IP address 192.168.0.xxx; your Windows client is connected to the same network and your DHCP server is configured to give out IP addresses on that subnet then it should all work.

169.254.0.0 is an adress that is given to windows machines that have dhcp enabled but can't see a DHCP server.. so your problem is either that dhcp is not running check whether or not the service is running by typing chkconfig --list dhcpd .. first thing to check...

the ifconfig - a eth1 shows the following
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 000:09:86:2E:BD
inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:567 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:51809 (50.5 Kb) TX bytes:240 (240.0 b)
Interrupt:5 Base address:0x6000
but still the windows clients get 169.254.xxx.xxx ip's
my ps -ef shows dhcpd running


Sanjib gupta