169.254.0.0/16 in SLES9

5 Jan 2005

      Where is this 169.254.0.0/16 network coming from when I build a system
via autoinstall?  I don't have it defined in my config file, but it
magically appears whenever I use autoinstall to build a SLES9 machine.
I don't have this problem using autoinstall and SLES8.

Also, would this phantom network have something to do with my gateway
not working when the machine comes up?  I have the gateway defined in
the config file, but it never seems to make it over to the system at the
end of the install.

Here's a netstat from a freshly built machine:

teeth:~ # netstat -rn
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt
Iface
10.150.1.0      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

Here's the network portion of the config file:

    <networking>
      <dns>
        false
        false
        <domain>srttel.com</domain>
        <hostname>teeth</hostname>
        <nameservers config:type="list">
          <nameserver>10.150.1.3</nameserver>
        </nameservers>
        <searchlist config:type="list">
          <search>srttel.com</search>
          <search>srtnet.com</search>
          <search>ndak.net</search>
          <search>minot.com</search>
        </searchlist>
      </dns>
      <interfaces config:type="list">
        <interface>
          <bootproto>static</bootproto>
          <broadcast>10.150.1.255</broadcast>
          <device>eth0</device>
          <ipaddr>10.150.1.111</ipaddr>
          <netmask>255.255.255.0</netmask>
          <network>10.150.1.0</network>
          <startmode>onboot</startmode>
        </interface>
      </interfaces>
      <modules config:type="list">

          <device>eth0</device>

      </modules>
      <routing config:type="list">
        <route>
          <destination>default</destination>
          <device>eth0</device>
          <gateway>10.150.1.1</gateway>
          <netmask>255.255.255.0</netmask>
        </route>
        false
      </routing>
    </networking>

Is there a way to keep this network from appearing?  Is this network the
reason why my gateway doesn't show up?  I could put something in the
post-install to clean this mess up, but that seems like a hack.  Surely
there is an elegant way to fix this.

Thanks.

-j

169.254.0.0/16 in SLES9

Jon Thorson