[NBLUG/talk] Samba running slow...

[Scott Doty]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 10:19:23AM -0700, Eric Eisenhart wrote:
> (Given 169.254/16's special purpose, non-routable nature and potential
> automatic usage, that routing table entry is precisely correct.  Any device
> in that network would need to be reached directly (not via a router) and
> would respond back directly to your configured IP.  Also, I see that RH9
> just does that now.)

I'll be danged -- there it is!

_[/root]_(root at tsk)_
# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
[...]
169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0 eth0
[...]

_[/root]_(root at tsk)_
# cat /etc/redhat-release 
Red Hat Linux release 9 (Shrike)

 -Scott