[SlugBug] Routing table question - SOLUTION

[Bill Best]

hi

i've found out a little more about the routing table thread i started 
last month:

https://www.email-lists.org/pipermail/slugbug/2006-August/thread.html#1009

i wanted, among other things, to suppress the addition of a link local 
network - 169.254.0.0 - to the routing table on my FC box.  it wasn't a 
major problem but i just want to keep things as tidy as possible.

under RH systems the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup script will add 
a "zeroconf" route by default e.g.

Destination  Gateway   Genmask      Flags   MSS Window  irtt Iface
169.254.0.0  0.0.0.0   255.255.0.0  U       0   0       0     eth0

the zeroconf route is disabled during network restarts or system boots 
by adding NOZEROCONF=yes to /etc/sysconfig/network and, of course, first 
manually deleting the zeroconf route from the route table.

i'm not so sure about other Linux distros but it appears that for debian 
one would have to explicitly install the zcip package to implement zero 
configuration networking.

more about zeroconf here:  http://www.zeroconf.org/

all the best

bill