Timothy Murphy: >>> [tim <at> helen ~]$ route -n >>> Kernel IP routing table >>> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use >>> Iface >>> 192.168.2.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 >>> 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 James Mckenzie: > These are standard 'blackhole' or private addresses. >>> 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 1002 0 0 eth0 >>> 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 1003 0 0 eth1 > These are 'self-referring' addresses and should not be here. Both the 192.168 & 169.254 are private addresses for LAN use. I wouldn't call either of them self-referring (like 127.0.0.1 is). The 192.168 range being manually or DHCP assigned. The 169.254 range being randomly assigned in the absence of manual or DHCP configuration, known as link-local, bonjour or ZeroConf addressing. If you don't use them (and you shouldn't other than for ad-hoc client-only networks without any sort of server), you can turn off those services, and you'd be free to delete them from routing tables. The link-local scheme can be confusing for people, as their computer can appear to have a functioning network, simply because the interface came up with an address, but not actually have a functioning network, because they're using an address that's not on the same sub-net as the rest of their equipment. Unless you're familiar with the IP range, and actually look at the IP that you've got, it won't be obvious what the problem is. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
