Why routing tables shows some routes which are not administratively configured in the system ?
Issue
- For an example in below output the routes like 10.126.X.0/24 , 169.254.X.0/24 are not administratively configured anywhere in the system, still it can be seen in routing table.
[EXAMPLE ~]$ netstat -nr
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
10.126.P.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
169.254.X.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 usb0
0.0.0.0 10.66.X.Y 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth3
- IP on that system is;
[EXAMPLE ~] $ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr E4:1F:xx:xx:xx:xx
inet addr:10.126.P.Q Bcast:10.126.X.X Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
eth3 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:xx:xx:xx:xx
inet addr:10.66.X.Y Bcast:10.66.x.x Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::215:17ff:feae:efd7/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (Any Version)
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