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?
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.
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:~>
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.