On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 22:55 +0100, Gijs wrote: > Not completely sure yet, but I would guess link-local would be your > local loopback (ie 127.0.0.1). No, link-local is the 169.254.x.y auto/random address scheme, for when there's no DHCP server and the machines pick random unique addresses for themselves, just so that they each have some IP address. See: Bonjour or ZeroConf It seems that Linux still has entries for it in the routing table, even if you're not currently using that addressing scheme. It's probably easier to leave them preset, so that no further configuration changes need making should something connect up using one of those addresses, or the local machine suddenly started using one, itself. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.23.1-10.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
