[oe] 169.254 subnet

[Denys Dmytriyenko]

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 03:34:56PM -0700, John Tobias wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> My board has a eth0 and wireless interfaces. I manually executed the
> following commands to configured my network interfaces:
> 
> 1. ifconfig eth0 192.168.3.139 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
> 2. ifconfig wlan0:1 inet 169.254.6.199 netmask 255.255.0.0 broadcast
> 169.254.255.255 up
> 
> 
> My Routing table:
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
> Iface
> 192.168.3.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
> 169.254.0.0     *               255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0 ra0
> 
> 
> My other machine is in 192.168.3.x subnet and I am able to ping the
> 192.168.3.139. But, the problem is I can ping the 169.254.6.199 too.
> 
> Is there any special on 169.254 because by using the said subnet it seems
> the two interfaces has a cross over routing?.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-local_address

-- 
Denys