route for localhost missing? (12.3, KDE4 & NM)

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#1

I have 2 computers on 12.3 KDE4. One has a route for localhost defined (YAST & hotplug managed) and one not (NetworkManager).
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ip route show* output:
hotplug:
default via 192.168.1.1 dev eth1
127.0.0.0/8 dev lo scope link
169.254.0.0/16 dev eth1 scope link
192.168.1.0/24 dev eth1 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.25

networkmanager:
default via 192.168.1.1 dev eth1 proto static
192.168.1.0/24 dev eth1 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.34

1 - is this a problem / should I “fix” this?
2 - how should I fix it?

Thanks
David

#2

If you are not noticing a problem, then there likely isn’t one.

Your networking knows how to access 127...* without and added route.

All that’s really missing is a route for 169.254.. and I can’t recall ever needing that. As far as I know, you only need that when your network is broken, and it is usually better to fix the network problem than to worry about link local addresses.

#3

Pleas jetojedno,

Next time you post computer output here in a post, copy/past the prompt, the command the output and the next prompt into the post between CODE tag. You get the CODE tags by clicking on the # button in the tool bar of the post editor.

Including the command in your copy/paste sweep will make typing things like “ip route show output:” completely superfluous.

Example:

henk@boven:~> ip route
default via 10.0.0.138 dev eth0 
10.0.0.0/24 dev eth0  proto kernel  scope link  src 10.0.0.154 
127.0.0.0/8 dev lo  scope link 
169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0  scope link 
henk@boven:~>
#4

Thanks. No visible networking problem, but there are unexplained delays in starting some features in some programs (e.g. evolution), which could be some kind of timeout. If they’re still there after I upgrade to 13.1 then I’ll try & trace.