Bug 518878

Summary: GATEWAY= and GATEWAYDEV= deleted in /etc/sysconfig/network
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Gene Czarcinski <gczarcinski>
Component: system-config-networkAssignee: Harald Hoyer <harald>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: dcbw, harald, jmoskovc, jpopelka
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Description Gene Czarcinski 2009-08-23 18:37:57 UTC 
Description of problem:

I have a qemu-kvm guest with two NICs defined: a NAT (or bridged) interface on eth0 which needs to be the default route and a private network on eth1.  Each network has its own DHCPD and DNS server.

I cannot use NetworkManager because it does not handle default routes in any usable manner.

After setting up the interfaces with system-config-network, I then modify /etc/sysconfig/netowrk to add GATEWAY= or GATEWAYDEV= to point to my eth0 network.

Things work fine (using /etc/init.d/network to bring things up) until I use system-config-network to change something after which the GATEWAY= or GATEWAYDEV= statements are deleted from /etc/sysconfig/network and the incorrect default route (from eth1) is set.

To make matters worse, there does not appear to be any way to set the default route using system-config-network.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 11 with current maintenance as of 8/21/2009
system-config-network-1.5.97-1.FC11

How reproducible:
everytime
Comment 1 Gene Czarcinski 2009-09-22 19:14:58 UTC 
ping ...

Any chance of this being addressed???
Comment 2 Gene Czarcinski 2009-10-08 16:56:16 UTC 
This continues to be a problem with F12.  How about at least an answer as to whether it will ever be addressed!
Comment 3 Gene Czarcinski 2009-10-09 12:55:43 UTC 
Hello ... anyone alive out there???

I am giving up on Fedora 11 and changing this report to be against rawhide (F12).

In F12, NetworkManager uses GATEWAYDEV=xxx in /etc/sysconfig/network when a specific NIC must be specified for the default route.  When you wipe out the setting, you impact NetworkManager!
Comment 4 Gene Czarcinski 2009-10-13 17:42:26 UTC 
A patch has been developed and tested which eliminates the need for using GATEWAYDEV= by NetworkManager.  I am assuming that some form of this patch will be integrated into NetworkManager and am closing this report WONTFIX.

See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528281