route -n, why this route?

reddog · 12-27-2005, 03:10 PM

Where did I get this route?

Destination,,, Gateway,,, Genmask,,, etc
169.254.0.0,,, 0.0.0.0,,, 255.255.0.0
127.0.0.0,,, 0.0.0.0,,, 255.0.0.0

How did my box get the 169.254.0.0 route?
I checked alot of the rc files but couldn't
figure it out. I don't have a lan card or
anything. Thought about doing: route -A inet del 169.254.0.0 but wasn't sure about it.
I'm running RH 9.0
Any tips??
Thanks,
Bob

Notwerk · 12-27-2005, 05:52 PM

Don't remove it.

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3330.txt

Half_Elf · 12-27-2005, 07:22 PM

You could remove the "169.254.0.0" route, this is the "default" ip address range your network card get when it can't get adress from DHCP. I knew there was a bug in old RH distribution about it, like the network card was always geting this at boot. It is useless, but make sure you doN,t remove any other route.