eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF
          inet addr:169.254.1.1  Bcast:169.254.255.255  Mask:255.255.255.255
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Base address:0x8000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:1561 (1.5 KiB)  TX bytes:1561 (1.5 KiB)

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
169.254.1.1     *               255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0 eth1
A.B.C.96        *               255.255.255.240 U     0      0        0 eth0
127.0.0.0       *               255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo
default         A.B.C.110       0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0

PING 169.254.1.1 (169.254.1.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 169.254.1.1: seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.143 ms
64 bytes from 169.254.1.1: seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.067 ms

# — let's add dummy IP-address to Wi-Fi NIC
# ip ad ad 11.1.2.3/24 dev wlan0
# — Now chage its scope from 'local' to 'link'
# ip ro replace 11.1.2.3 dev wlan0 scope link table local

# — with tcpdump we can see now that's traffic to that dummy
# ex-local IP-address actually tries to go out of Wi-Fi NIC:

00:15:22.807607 ARP, Request who-has 11.1.2.3 tell 10.0.0.7, length 28

ip route get 169.254.1.1

local 169.254.1.1 dev lo  src 169.254.1.1