HP Proliant defaults was Problems getting 2 NICs to work.

[James B. Byrne]

See: 

http://linux.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/linux.redhat.misc/2004-
02/0244.html

On Mon, 17 May 2004 09:28:46 -0400
Kevin Kimmell <kevin at dynamictrend.com>
wrote:

> I've got several HP Proliant servers running mostly Fedora versions of
> redhat...
> 
> Here's the route table when things are ok:
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
> 204.117.218.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
> 169.254.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
> 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
> default 204.117.218.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
> 
> What the hell is that 169.254.0.0 statement? I've searched hi and lo
> and can't figure it out. I'm making a blind guess that it's an IPv6
> thing? I didn't put it there and removing it doesn't survive a reboot.
> ....
> Can anyone give me a clue?

Good luck.

Jim

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