Bug 477678

Summary:	incorrect data saved to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Need Real Name <mal>
Component:	system-config-network	Assignee:	Harald Hoyer <harald>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	10	CC:	harald, jmoskovc, shap
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Description Need Real Name 2008-12-22 21:36:11 UTC

the 
rpm -q system-config-network
system-config-network-1.5.93-2.fc10.noarch
saves incorrect data to 
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
The 
NETMASK field gets value of IP address or gateway.
Thus the static eth0 interface created by system-config-network
is unusable.
Only manual edit of /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
and setting NETMASK=255.255.255.0 
can make interface working.

Comment 1 Jonathan S. Shapiro 2008-12-23 14:14:14 UTC

The problem is somewhat worse than described. If the ifcfg-ethX file is hand-edited, and system-config-network is re-run, then the netmask field is once again mis-set and the machine is effectively taken off of the network.

Priority on this should be changed to *high*, because this will break connectivity for every unsophisticated user who is configured using static IP.

I haven't looked at source for this (traveling), but this really smells like somebody made a sloppy two line change somewhere and didn't even make a casual test.

Comment 2 Jiri Moskovcak 2008-12-24 10:55:11 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 469434 ***