Bug 472488
Summary: | Unexpected behavior of ifconfig in RHTS environment | ||||||||||||
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Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Ian Kent <ikent> | ||||||||||
Component: | net-tools | Assignee: | Zdenek Prikryl <zprikryl> | ||||||||||
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | BaseOS QE <qe-baseos-auto> | ||||||||||
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||||||
Priority: | medium | ||||||||||||
Version: | 5.3 | CC: | jmoyer, kvolny | ||||||||||
Target Milestone: | rc | ||||||||||||
Target Release: | --- | ||||||||||||
Hardware: | All | ||||||||||||
OS: | Linux | ||||||||||||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||||||
Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||||||||
Clone Of: | Environment: | ||||||||||||
Last Closed: | 2009-03-19 09:01:40 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||||||
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||||||
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||||||||
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Description
Ian Kent
2008-11-21 04:59:44 UTC
Hello, I tried to reproduce this bug, but I didn't succeeded. The syntax with "address" doesn't work at all. So, can you give me an access to the machine where this syntax works? Thanks Zdenek (In reply to comment #1) > Hello, > I tried to reproduce this bug, but I didn't succeeded. The syntax with > "address" doesn't work at all. So, can you give me an access to the machine > where this syntax works? No. I work remotely so that's not possible but it shouldn't be hard to find a contradiction in the way this works. See the examples I'm uploading. Created attachment 324824 [details]
Test ifconfig on RHEL-5.2 based install
Created attachment 324825 [details]
Test ifconfig on RHEL-5.1 based install
Created attachment 324826 [details]
Test ifconfig on Fedora 8 based install
Created attachment 324827 [details]
Test ifconfig on Fedora 9 based install
I don't really care which syntax is used but I don't like surprises like this between installs when developing RHTS tests because it needlessly costs time I don't have. So you tell me, which syntax is the one that should be enforced? The yays appear to outnumber the nays AFAICS. The "address" syntax shouldn't work. ifconfig succeeds only if "address" is translated to IP. Please, could you try this? $ ifconfig lo:1 address netmask 255.255.252.0 broadcast 192.168.129.255 && ifconfig and $ cat /etc/hosts Anyway, use only syntax without "address"! Thanks It seems, that you found the problem, so I'm closing the bug. |