Running a brand new install of v9.2 (very impressed BTW) with a Win2000 box and this Linux box running peer to peer through a Linksys adsl router. I have a strange (to me) entry in my Route Table that has me perplexed. Here is the result of 'route -n' and 'ifconfig': route -n: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.100.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 192.168.1.0 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 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 ifconfig: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:B5:11:F9:42 inet addr:192.168.1.100 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::210:b5ff:fe11:f942/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:203009 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:134429 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:226896248 (216.3 Mb) TX bytes:14366030 (13.7 Mb) Interrupt:11 Base address:0xa000 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:BF:79:E4:F1 inet addr:192.168.100.1 Bcast:192.168.100.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::250:bfff:fe79:e4f1/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:756 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:176788 (172.6 Kb) Interrupt:5 Base address:0xc000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:113990 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:113990 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:18730435 (17.8 Mb) TX bytes:18730435 (17.8 Mb) What I have no clue about is the entry in the route table of 169.254.0.0? I have no idea how it got there, whether it should be there, whether it suggests a breakin??? I've never had an 'external' address like that turn up in here in prior installs. I have very limited knowledge when it comes to networking and was hoping someone could advise me on how to remove the entry, if in fact it should be removed, as well as how it might have got in there in the first place - certainly it was no concious effort on my part? Regards, Paul.