[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: extra ip route

terry linux at cowtown.net
Mon Sep 15 07:49:11 CDT 2003


terry wrote:

  >I'm wondering why I see an extra destination showing up in output of
route:
  >==============
  >Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
  >Iface
  >#################################################
  >169.254.0.0     *               255.255.0.0     U     0      0
0 eth1
  >=============
  >
  >So I look around a bit and I find:
  >
  >in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup:
  >
  ># Add Zeroconf route.
  >if [ -z "${NOZEROCONF}" -a "${ISALIAS}" = "no" ]; then
  >    ip route replace 169.254.0.0/16 dev ${REALDEVICE}
  >fi
  >========================
  >and in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/network-functions-ipv6:
  >
  >                # test 169.254.0.0/16 (APIPA / DHCP link local)
  >                /bin/ipcalc --network $testipv4addr_globalusable
  >255.255.0.0 | LC_ALL=C grep -q "NETWORK=169\.254\.0\.0" && return 10
  >=======================
  >so, should I just comment out, or delete those lines.  Is that what's
  >making this extra destination for eth1? ...that I prolly don't need?
  >
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After receiving no response, I commented out those lines and that seemed
to take care of it. But I was a bit curious as to how they got in there
in the first place?

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