Bug 7392

Summary: DefaultRoute allocated on ALL network interfaces
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Michael McConnell <linux>
Component: initscriptsAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
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Version: 6.1CC: bbaetz, rhw, rvokal
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Description Michael McConnell 1999-11-28 17:32:34 UTC
With initscripts-4.68-1 the networking tries to attach a default route to
EVERY network interface as it brings it up. The following patch appears to
correct this, although I'm not sure whether this patch fixes the problem or
hides it...

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--- /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup~	Tue Nov 16 17:25:41 1999
+++ /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup	Sun Nov 28 16:11:46 1999
@@ -130,8 +130,6 @@
 	if [ "${GATEWAY}" != "" ]; then
 	    route add default gw ${GATEWAY} ${DEVICE}
 	    DEFGW=${GATEWAY}
-	else
-	    route add default ${DEVICE}
 	fi
     fi
 fi

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Any and all comments much appreciated...

Comment 1 Riley H Williams 1999-11-28 23:10:59 UTC
Bug 7345, 7355, 7365, 7366 and 7386 all appear to be duplicates of this one.

Comment 2 Riley H Williams 1999-11-28 23:11:59 UTC
Links: Bug 7345 - bug 7355 - bug 7365 - bug 7366 - bug 7386

Comment 3 Bradley 1999-11-29 01:28:59 UTC
See Bug 7319 for my additional comments.

Seriously though, there must have been a reason this was added. Does some
software package (DHCP?) rely on a default route being present?

Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 1999-11-29 16:14:59 UTC
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 7319 ***