Strange routing table.

[Erik P. Olsen]

My main box is an FC3 linux box wire coupled to a Linksys router WRT54G. 
I have two laptops wireless coupled to the router. One laptop runs 
Windows 2000 the other Windows XP. The laptops can ping all boxes but 
the linux box can't ping the laptops. All boxes access the internet 
through the router without any problem whatsoever. In addition I have 
two printers wire coupled to the router and all boxes can print on any 
printer.

The routing table on the linux box is:

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use 
Iface
192.168.1.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
169.254.0.0     *               255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0 eth0
default         192.168.1.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0

It looks quite primitive to me compared to what I see on the windows 
boxes, so I assume something is wrong with - but what? How can I 
customise the routing table so that I can ping the laptops?

Also it contains a destination address of 169.254.0.0 which I don't know 
and which I have not added to the table myself. What could it be and who 
has put it into my routing table?

Thanks in advance for any help that might bring me closer to a solution 
to this "mysterious" problem.

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Regards,
Erik P. Olsen