On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 12:17 +0700, Matthew Hodgett wrote:> > As for the 169.254 issue I tried to search the archives but got nothing. > I then tried to search on generic words, nothing. I then tried some > really common words like ''help'', ''initiated'', ''masq'' - nothing. I think > the index might be corrupt because I get no results from anything when I > search the archives. >I just took a look at a couple of systems here: a) On a Fedora system, set NOZEROCONF to a non-empty value in /etc/sysconfig/network. b) There appears to be no way to disable this on SuSE short of hacking the /etc/sysconfig/network/scripts/ifup-route script. -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool Shoreline, \ http://shorewall.net Washington USA \ teastep@shorewall.net PGP Public Key \ https://lists.shorewall.net/teastep.pgp.key
Tom Eastep wrote:>On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 12:17 +0700, Matthew Hodgett wrote: > > > >>As for the 169.254 issue I tried to search the archives but got nothing. >>I then tried to search on generic words, nothing. I then tried some >>really common words like ''help'', ''initiated'', ''masq'' - nothing. I think >>the index might be corrupt because I get no results from anything when I >>search the archives. >> >> >> > >I just took a look at a couple of systems here: > >a) On a Fedora system, set NOZEROCONF to a non-empty value >in /etc/sysconfig/network. > >b) There appears to be no way to disable this on SuSE short of hacking >the /etc/sysconfig/network/scripts/ifup-route script. > >-Tom > >On Mandrake, urpme zcip. Might as well urpme tmdns while you''re at it. Be aware that using the GUI configger (drakconnect) will reinstall these packages, unless you add them to the /etc/urpmi/skip.list -- Jack at Monkeynoodle dot Org: It''s a Scientific Venture... Riding the Emergency Third Rail Power Trip Since 1996
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 08:04 -0800, Tom Eastep wrote:> > b) There appears to be no way to disable this on SuSE short of hacking > the /etc/sysconfig/network/scripts/ifup-route script.I stand corrected -- if you set LINKLOCAL_INTERFACES="" in /etc/sysconfig/network/config, the ersatz route will not be created. -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool Shoreline, \ http://shorewall.net Washington USA \ teastep@shorewall.net PGP Public Key \ https://lists.shorewall.net/teastep.pgp.key