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 ------------- If your network is properly configured, you should be able to turn off Zeroconf with no problems. <snip> Thanks, Johnny Hughes -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060922/db07bb45/attachment-0005.sig>