On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 10:41 -0400, Scot L. Harris wrote:
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 01:02, Amadeus W. M. wrote:
> Ever since I moved to this ISP I've been having network problems, and I
> need a little help.
> ssh: connect to host cse port 22: Network is unreachable
>
> I see network activity in gkrellm and I see ARP packets with ethereal,
> so the link is ok. So I look at the routing table, and I see no default
> gateway:
>
> 12) root:~> route -n
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
> 24.35.40.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.248.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
> 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
>
> I have absolutely no idea where the 168.254.0.0 came from. I did see this
> happening in windows, a long time ago. All I did in the network
> configuration tool was to click on get IP automatically with dhcp.
The 169.254 address is part of the zeroconf (zero configuration)
project. It can be ignored or better yet disabled. It is not needed
and does nothing for anyone. :)
And the way to disable it is to add the following line
to /etc/sysconfig/network
NOZEROCONF=yes
Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul(a)city-fan.org>