Re: routing prob

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 02/24/05


Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 20:32:16 +0100

In comp.os.linux.networking Jens Hofmeier <jhofmeir@hotmail.com>:
> Hello,

> this may be a newbie question, but since i'm new to linx, i'll give it a
> try:
> Where are the routing settings stored? Every time i restart the network

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ or so on redhat.

> service with "service network restart"
> some strange entries appear when typing "route":
> It's a route to
> 169.254.0.0 * 0.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
> I don't know where this comes from, since i've never entered it.

Your system did it for you, nothing to worry about, try
www.faqs.org and search for RFC 3330 for the complete story.

> It also takes a few seconds until the last of the three entries there is
> displayed (Dest=default), does anyone know why?
> I'm using FC3 2.6.10

 route -n

Try 'man route' for more options.

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