Michael C. Toren on 24 Dec 2005 06:04:23 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] route necessary?


On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 09:12:02PM -0500, Doug Crompton wrote:
> I notice that my SUSE 10 config puts a route to 169.254.0.0 netmask
> 255.255.0.0 - It is called link-local and I traced it to my /etc/sysconfig
> - I can edit it out but why is it in there to begin with? I use the
> 192.168 network on a local lan.

169.254/16 is link-local space, used by zeroconf and the like.  See RFC3927.

-mct
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