[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: extra ip route

[terry]

MadHat wrote:

>On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 07:49, terry wrote:
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>>terry wrote:
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>>  >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
>>  >=============
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>>  >So I look around a bit and I find:
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>>  >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:
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>>  >                # 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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>What distro?
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RH9.0