using 169.254 subnet

[John Tobias]

Hello All,

I have a ubuntu machine with eth0 and wireless interfaces. I manually
executed the following commands to configured my network interfaces:

1. ifconfig eth0 192.168.3.139 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
2. ifconfig wlan0:1 inet 169.254.6.199 netmask 255.255.0.0 broadcast
169.254.255.255 up


My Routing table:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
Iface
192.168.3.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
169.254.0.0     *               255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0 ra0


My other machine is in 192.168.3.x subnet and I am able to ping the
192.168.3.139. But, the problem is I can ping the 169.254.6.199 too.

Is there any special on 169.254 because by using the said subnet it seems
the two interfaces has a cross over routing?.
Any idea how to resolve the issue?.

Thanks,

john
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