[LBo] Link-local.

[Robert Spangler]

On Fri February 2 2007 16:04, Geoff Jones wrote:

>  My main question is where does 169.x.x.x get configured when I already
> have a dhcp server that can handle a simple home network [ - initially I
> suspected the 169.x.x.x address on the local network was some sort of
> attack!].

Not sure where it comes from on your system but you can delete it as such;

route del -net 169.254.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 dev <if>

>  Any further enlightenment appreciated,

On my CentOS system when I do the following;

grep -R 169.254.0.0 /etc/sysconfig/

I get the following output;

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup:    ip route replace 169.254.0.0/16 dev 
${REALDEVICE}
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-ib:    ip route replace 169.254.0.0/16 dev 
${REALDEVICE}
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/network-functions-ipv6:          # test 
169.254.0.0/16 (APIPA / DHCP linklocal)


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Regards
Robert

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