You may notice that in your routing table you have a route 169.254.0.0/16.
It is so called ZEROCONF route.
Every time the system boots, the ZEROCONF route (169.254.0.0/16) is enabled and added to the routing table.
And it is time to get rid of it.
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Sample output of the ip route command with the enabled ZEROCONF route:
$ ip route 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1002 default via 192.168.0.1 dev eth0
Sample output of the route -n command with the enabled ZEROCONF route:
$ route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 1002 0 0 eth0 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
To disable the ZEROCONF route during the system boot so that the system will boot without the 169.254.0.0/16 route, just edited the file /etc/sysconfig/network:
$ vi /etc/sysconfig/network
And add the following line:
NOZEROCONF=yes
Restart the network to apply modifications:
$ service network restart
Repeat the ip route or route -n command to ensure that the 169.254.0.0/16 route is removed from the routing table.
$ ip route default via 192.168.0.1 dev eth0 $ route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
