I file a separate bug for the issue mentioned in bug #602185 comment #6
I did a minimal install; during that I've setup static network info and succesfully loaded repositories from the Internet
after rebooting and starting network, the Internet was unreachable
I've found that this was because the default gateway was missing
but in ifcfg-eth0 there was
GATEWAY0=the.ip.of.gateway
examining the scripts, it looks like ifup-eth is unable to cope with the trailing zero in "GATEWAY0" - after deleting it and restarting the service the gateway is set up correctly
initscripts-9.37-1.fc17.x86_64
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #602185 +++
thanks, sorry for the duplicate ... what's up with bugzilla today, this should had shown up in search - I've found the abovementioned comment in #602185 and not the bug #708409 which has very similar subject to this one? :-/