[WBEL-users] Block IP Address

[Toby Bluhm]

> 
> From: "Richard Swift" <rs@swift-technologies.net>
> Date: 2004/05/02 Sun AM 10:52:10 EDT
> To: whitebox-users@beau.org
> Subject: [WBEL-users] Block IP Address
> 
> Below are the results I got from a netstat -rn.  I'm a bit concerned with
> the 169.254.0.0 ip addres shown, I have no idea why it's there.  Any
> ideas?
> 
> [tOeJaM@LinuxServer]# netstat -rn
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt
> Iface
> 192.168.2.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U         0 0          0 eth0
> 169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U         0 0          0 eth0
> 127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U         0 0          0 lo
> 0.0.0.0         192.168.2.1     0.0.0.0         UG        0 0          0 eth0
> 

That's zeroconf. It's for dhcp clients to setup resonable, unique IPs when no dhcp server exists. Typically on a standalone home network when no one cares what the IPs really are, just so long the hosts find each other.


NOZEROCONF=yes

in /etc/sysconfig/network will disable it.


-Toby