weird network problem in FC4

[Scot L. Harris]

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. :)

As you already figured out you don't have a default gateway setup.

-- 
Scot L. Harris
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