[CentOS] Problem deleting an active route

Fri Sep 22 08:23:26 UTC 2006
Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com>

On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 02:01 -0500, Dale wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Distro is a standard CentOS 4.4. Nothing unusual is installed or is 
> running on this box as it was just setup a couple of weeks ago.
> 
> As root, I type:
>     ./route del -net 169.254.0.0
> 

This is called the Zeroconf network ... it happens automatically in many
OSes (Windows since win98, Mac, many Linuxes) and is designed to make
the machine reachable on a network even with a botched network setup.

You can make it go away with this entry in /etc/sysconfig/network: 

NOZEROCONF=yes

Then restart the network service ... "service network restart" (or
reboot the machine)

However, this does remove some functionality.  For more info about
zeroconf and what it can do see:

http://files.zeroconf.org/draft-ietf-zeroconf-ipv4-linklocal.txt

and

http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/06/15/2012219

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If your network is properly configured, you should be able to turn off
Zeroconf with no problems.

<snip>

Thanks,
Johnny Hughes
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