What is the 169.254 IP address on my RHEL system?
Issue
- My system has an IP address in the
169.254.x.xaddress range, where did this come from? - Why does
169.254.0.0/16appear in the routing table? - How do I get rid of the above two conditions?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Network interface with IPv4 address
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