Hello, Thanks for the reply, I have pasted my complete routing table below. Email Lists wrote: > -> -----Original Message----- > -> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On > -> Behalf Of Dale > -> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 12:01 AM > -> To: CentOS mailing list > -> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Problem deleting an active route > -> > -> 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 > -> > -> which returns an error of: > -> > -> SIOCDELRT: Invalid argument > -> > -> This route shows up in Webmin as well as when I type: ./route > -> > -> This is not configured as a network interface anyplace I can see. eth0 > -> has a legitimate, public IP assigned to it > -> > -> Dale > > Im pretty sure if you want to delete a route that you need to use a more > verbose syntax with netmask and gw and etc. > > When I do a route on one of my boxes it comes up > > [root at srv ~]# route > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use > Iface > 10.0.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 > 200.55.44.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 > 169.254.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 > default br1.abbacomm.ne 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 > > eth0 is active and up. Eth1 is not active and not plugged into anything. > Here is my complete route table: ./route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 69.13.211.0 * 255.255.255.192 U 0 0 0 eth0 169.254.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 default 69.13.211.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 The big difference between mine and yours is that the 169.254.0.0 route is showing up on eth0 - which is the only port connected. I can get into the box, but the box can not get out to anyplace. I could be looking in the wrong place for the solution, I figured that this looks wrong to have this apparent self-assigned IP on my only active ethernet port. > I show the route as well only because I have an inactive interface meaning > it is not admin up and so there really is no route because the interface > isn't talking to another external interface. > > There is no reason to delete it that I can think of. > > If it is not on your active interface, down the other one as long as you can > get back in the machine and forget about it??? > This is my only active port. If I shut it down, the machine goes away. > What does your routing table say? > see above > What does ifconfig say? > ./ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:48:89:09:EC inet addr:69.13.211.30 Bcast:69.13.211.63 Mask:255.255.255.192 inet6 addr: fe80::230:48ff:fe89:9ec/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:301425 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:39974 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:21343464 (20.3 MiB) TX bytes:8486082 (8.0 MiB) Base address:0x2000 Memory:c8200000-c8220000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:2627 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:2627 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:3340381 (3.1 MiB) TX bytes:3340381 (3.1 MiB) > - rh > > -- > Robert - Abba Communications > Computer & Internet Services > (509) 624-7159 - www.abbacomm.net > Dale