[KLUG Members] Why this routing, anyone?

[MPs]

I think this would alleviate some of my problems at work. What this says to me
is that RH realised that <blank> happens and sometimes not all computers get
assigned a DHCP address*. This will route all traffic from those computers to
the real network, if I am reading the line right [I've never put enough work
into routeing]. Though, I would rather delete it and know when a problem occurs.

*This seems to happen very often to our 95 and 98 dinosaurs. When it does,
MS gives them a 169.254... address, unfortunatly it usually conflicts with
one of the other computers who have failed to get or refresh the IP
address.

On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Robert G. Brown wrote:

>
> I've noticed this line in recent (RH9) routing tables:
>
> 169.254.0.0     *               255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0 eth0
>
> I have deleted it without ill-effect, and found some reference to it....
> Can someone tell us what purpose this routing has?
>
> 								Regards,
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