Am Di, den 20.04.2004 schrieb Benno Goedhart um 23:13: > Guolin Cheng wrote: > > Hi, all, > > > > > > > > I got an additional entry when I run “netstat –rn” on my fedora host, > > an “169.254.0.0 …” entry appears without being invited. I know that > > 169.254.0.0/16 is a private address block for some kind of special > > purposes, and it appears in “ifup” script, But my question is: what does > > this entry mean? And How to get rid of it if it does nothing except > > bring security holes? Since it is routable now through my hosts’ exneral > > interface, ridicules.. > > It means you have an additional network card, without an active > connection. The card tries to retrieve an IP address from a DHCP server > which is supposedly not present. Then this address will be assigned to it. > No, I think this is incorrect. It's a zeroconf route. The 169.254 network is used for devices like mobile phones, handhelds, laptops etc. For example my SonyEriccson T610 always uses the same ip inside this block. Have a look at http://www.zeroconf.org/ To turn of this behaviour use NOZEROCONF=yes in /etc/sysconfig/network (for the whole network) or in /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-ethX (only one device) CHristoph
