SPAM-HIGH Re: [Gllug] Routing table - help

[Russell Howe]

On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 02:47:21PM +0200, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> Steve Nelson wrote:
> >Linux has had a 169.254.0.0/16 route in the routing table for a very
> >long time, and disabling it is one of the first things you read in a
> >'hardening linux' article. 
> 
> You mean Linux, or $distro?
> 
> None of my Linux boxes appear to have that route.

If you use IPv6, you will have something similar there, however, and it
appears to be put there by the kernel:

$ ip -f inet6 a s
1: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qlen 1000
    inet6 fe80::204:76ff:fee9:88a6/64 scope link 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
$ ip -f inet6 r
fe80::/64 dev eth0  metric 256  expires 18819699sec mtu 1500 advmss 1440 hoplimit 4294967295
ff00::/8 dev eth0  metric 256  expires 18819699sec mtu 1500 advmss 1440 hoplimit 4294967295
unreachable default dev lo  proto none  metric -1  error -101 hoplimit 255

For the meaning of the fe80 stuff, see RFC2529

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