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Re: The 'route' output



On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 05:20:19 +0000, T o n g wrote:

> Here is my 'route' output:

(better use "ip ro")
 
>  $ route
>  Kernel IP routing table
>  Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use  Iface 
>  192.168.0.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0         0 eth0 
>  link-local      *               255.255.0.0     U     1000   0         0 eth0 
>  default         192.168.0.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0       0        0 eth0
> 
> and I have two questions,
> 
> - I haven't seen the "link-local" entry before. What's that?
>   Where can I read more about it?

It's the Ahavi-zeroconf service running in background.

> - The last line, the "default" line, will take a while to show up,
>   abut 2 or 3 seconds. where is the delay comes from?

Yep, it is resolving the name and that takes some seconds 
("route -n" will prevent that).

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón


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