Bug 741195

Summary: arping cannot choose em1 to default ethernet device
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Liang Zheng <lzheng>
Component: iputilsAssignee: Jan Synacek <jsynacek>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
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Version: 6.2CC: kzhang
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[Patch] Look for "eth" or "em" in /proc/self/net/dev none

Description Liang Zheng 2011-09-26 08:37:27 UTC 
Description of problem:
When your  default ethernet device isnot eth0 ,it is em1 or p1p1,
arping cannot choose em1 to default ethernet device 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
iputils-20071127-16.el6.x86_64

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1.arping 192.168.1.1

  
Actual results:
[root@dell-per715-01 ~]# ip route
10.16.40.0/21 dev em1  proto kernel  scope link  src 10.16.45.55 
default via 10.16.47.254 dev em1 

[root@dell-per715-01 ~]# arping 10.16.45.59 
arping: unknown iface eth0


Expected results:


Additional info:
Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2011-09-26 08:58:43 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated
in the current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to
address this request at this time. Red Hat invites you to
ask your support representative to propose this request, if
appropriate and relevant, in the next release of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux. If you would like it considered as an
exception in the current release, please ask your support
representative.
Comment 4 RHEL Program Management 2011-09-26 09:18:43 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated
in the current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to
address this request at this time. Red Hat invites you to
ask your support representative to propose this request, if
appropriate and relevant, in the next release of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux. If you would like it considered as an
exception in the current release, please ask your support
representative.
Comment 6 Suzanne Logcher 2012-02-14 23:16:35 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated
in the current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to
address this request at this time. Red Hat invites you to
ask your support representative to propose this request, if
appropriate and relevant, in the next release of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux. If you would like it considered as an
exception in the current release, please ask your support
representative.
Comment 7 Jan Synacek 2012-07-16 12:10:05 UTC 
Created attachment 598433 [details]
[Patch] Look for "eth" or "em" in /proc/self/net/dev
Comment 8 RHEL Program Management 2012-09-07 05:11:08 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated
in the current release, Red Hat is unable to address this
request at this time.

Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to
propose this request, if appropriate, in the next release of
Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Comment 9 Jan Synacek 2013-05-21 08:21:49 UTC 
This bug hasn't been approved in the previous releases. I'm closing it as WONTFIX. If you or PM thinks otherwise, feel free to reopen.