Bug 55285

Summary:	ifup loops on wrong HWADDR
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Harald Hoyer <harald>
Component:	initscripts	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.2	CC:	pknirsch, rvokal
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Description Harald Hoyer 2001-10-29 09:11:59 UTC

Description of Problem:
ifup loops, if the wrong HWADDR is set.

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How Reproducible:
ever

Steps to Reproduce:
1. edit ifcfg-eth0 with a wrong set HWADDR
2. /sbin/ifup eth0
3. watch the loop

Actual Results:
loops

Expected Results:
do not ifup i-face

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Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2002-01-25 05:20:32 UTC

Whoops. Fixed in 6.51-1 for the simple cases.