<HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="MARGIN: 4px 4px 1px; FONT: 10pt Tahoma">Well that makes sense, thanks for the response! >>> morris_r@4j.lane.edu 2005-02-09 16:29:44 >>> <DIV style="COLOR: #000000"> Around Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 03:18:41PM -0600, Jim Kronebusch, wrote: > The standard IP address to assign to a system that can't obtain a dhcp > address is 169.254.x.x (can't remember the rest). So my guess is your > eth1 is setup for dhcp but is not grabbing an address and defaulting > to 169.254.x.x and that is why you show routing for 169.254.0.0 > > there is no rest of 169.254.x.x, the computer will try and assign itself in the 169.254.0.0/16 range. I think the computer will attempt to determine if a specific 3 octet is used, then assign an IP in that range. ie, if the first computer self assigns 169.254.5.23 , then the second one would self assign something in 169.254.5.0/24. Hmm, just thinking, I don't recall if the netmask on a self assigned is 255.255.255.0, or 255.255.0.0. ! RFC 3330 lists special use IPV4 addresses. -- Roger Morris 687-3579 morris_r@4j.lane.edu _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list K12OSN@redhat.com <A href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</A> For more info see <<A href="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</A>> </DIV></BODY></HTML>