Bug#772650: general: Debian could not use gateway in 169.254.0.0 ip range
On Tue, 09 Dec 2014, Maciej Kotliński wrote:
> I have a NAT-ed network which uses 169.254.1.0/24 range (private/zeroconf
> range). The network has dhcp and gateway (169.254.1.1). From some time
> (probably few months) Debian Jessie is not able to use the gateway.
This was never supposed to work in the first place, but before I explain
why, make sure you have ip forwarding enabled.
cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/forwarding
must return "1".
I will also reply with the long explanation of why your network addressing
is broken and not supposed to work.
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Henrique Holschuh
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