Bug 7319
| Summary: | default route being set on all devices | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Chris <earthman> |
| Component: | initscripts | Assignee: | Bill Nottingham <notting> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.1 | CC: | bbaetz, rvokal |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 1999-11-30 21:15:14 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Chris
1999-11-25 05:53:08 UTC
Its even worse than that :( I've got an ethernet card in my machine. A default route is brought up for that and the loopback interface. When I dial up using my modem, ifup-ppp does a route -del default, which only removes *one* of the default routes (the eth0 one in my case). pppd then doesn't add a default route for ppp (presumably becuase a default route already exists, althouhg I haven't checked), and so I can't do anything on the net, as I don't have a route via ppp0. I can either disconnect and reconnect, which works because then the 2nd default route is removed, leaving no more, or manually remove the default routes and add a new default route to ppp0. A clean solution for me to to set GATEWAYDEV in /etc/sysconfig/network to none. There's no network device called none, so this avoids the default route adding in ifup, and the ifup-ppp adds the defaultroute parameter because of my ifcfg-ppp* settings. I don't know what a good general, backwards compatable solution is though. Requiring GATEWAYDEV to be non-null isn't a good solution. (I have 2 ppp dialups I can use - ppp0 and ppp1. Also think of laptop users who could connect via ethernet at work/uni or a modem at home). Maybe remove all default routes in ifup-ppp, or maybe make pppd add a default route regardless. Another thought - should he deleted routes be added again after disconnecting? I can't think of a situation where is configuration is valid, except possibly for laptops {Wry smile} Refer to bug 7392 for a patch to fix this, along with a duplicate
bug report that I submitted a few hours ago.
Thanks. I've added myself to the cc list for that one. There are quite a few similar reports though... See Bug 7392 for "comments" on the patch. *** Bug 7392 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 7320 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 7333 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ****** Bug 7350 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 7386 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ****** Bug 7411 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** This should be fixed in initscripts-4.69-1 in Raw Hide now. The patch by rhv is not the best solution. If there is a GATEWAY, every device would still get a default route. The problem is that /sbin/ifup adds a default route even when GATEWAYDEV = "". Instead ifup should add a default route only when GATEWAYDEV = DEVICE. This is also how it worked in the previous releases. This is a pretty serious problem with things like DNS. I can't believe they have not fixed this for a whole week. ates.edu Quick comment to orders1 - the patch wasn't from me, but from linux.uk - I just commented on its being there. Unfortunately, I phrased my comment rather badly... Incidentally, linux.uk isn't me, but a friend of mine. *** Bug 7440 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Please post the rawhide initscripts package also in the 6.1 errata section. This is a pretty serious bug. *** Bug 7345 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** initscripts-4.70 is now in the errata. Wheeee. |