[KLUG Members] Why this routing, anyone?

[Robert G. Brown]

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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