weird network problem in FC4

[Paul Howarth]

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>