On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 16:03, David Leslie wrote: > > Firstly, where does 169.254.0.0 come from? I never asked it to be > > there!! > > This is the address range that windows machines will use when they can not > find a dhcp server. [snip] I assumed it was something windozy that would make me roll my eyes. > Try placing the line > NOZEROCONF='yes' > in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 That didn't seem to make any difference. I couldn't find it in /usr/share/doc/initscripts-7.14/sysconfig.txt and google seemed to be obscure on the topic. [snip] > > Secondly, why do I have _three_ default routes? (The IP is right) I > > set this up with redhat-config-network (including the 10... alias). The > > default routes appear every time I do an ifup. > > in /etc/hosts > comment out any duplicate lines, so that only one of each remains. That didn't seem to do anything either. I still have three default routes and I still have the useless 169.254.0.0 entry. Also: I have to delete _all_ three default routes, and then add one again (as opposed to deleting just two) or networking doesn't work... Thanks for your help so far, -- Iain Buchanan <iain@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Predestination was doomed from the start. -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
