sloopy on 24 Dec 2005 13:24:52 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] route necessary?


Mac OSX gives a 169.254/16 ip when DHCP fails as well... but Fedora Core
4 doesnt have this tho...

sloopy.


On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 21:24 -0500, Lee Marzke wrote:
> 169.254.x.x is what Microsoft clients use when they can't find a DHCP server
> for automagic configuration.
> 
> Lee Marzke
> 
> 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.
> >
> >Doug
> >

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