weird network problem in FC4
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Thu Jul 7 07:24:19 UTC 2005
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 10:41 -0400, Scot L. Harris wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 01:02, Amadeus W. M. wrote:
> > Ever since I moved to this ISP I've been having network problems, and I
> > need a little help.
>
> > ssh: connect to host cse port 22: Network is unreachable
> >
> > I see network activity in gkrellm and I see ARP packets with ethereal,
> > so the link is ok. So I look at the routing table, and I see no default
> > gateway:
> >
> > 12) root:~> route -n
> > Kernel IP routing table
> > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
> > 24.35.40.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.248.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
> > 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
> >
> > I have absolutely no idea where the 168.254.0.0 came from. I did see this
> > happening in windows, a long time ago. All I did in the network
> > configuration tool was to click on get IP automatically with dhcp.
>
> The 169.254 address is part of the zeroconf (zero configuration)
> project. It can be ignored or better yet disabled. It is not needed
> and does nothing for anyone. :)
And the way to disable it is to add the following line
to /etc/sysconfig/network
NOZEROCONF=yes
Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>
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