Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 135167
RFE: ifdown should report found and expected for MACADDR error
Last modified: 2014-03-16 22:49:16 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922 Epiphany/1.2.7 Description of problem: when your network interface mac address doesn't match the expected hwaddr by ifdown it merely reports that there was a difference, not what the difference was, making debugging difficult. This patch fixes it so that it reports both what was found and what it expected to find, so you can more easily determine a solution to the problem, rather than just watching your trusty interface card get ignored. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): initscripts-7.55.1-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Additional info: a patch is attached that illustrates both the problem and the solution
Created attachment 104970 [details] patch to /sbin/ifdown that both illustrates and fixes problem
I had resolved this one a long time ago hacking it for myself to help diagnose the problem and promptly forgot all about it.. just now when I upgraded to FC2 I noticed the .rpmsave file and investigated and was reminded of the whole issue. So I decided to save some other admins the same frustration I went thru and here we are. :)
Fedora Core 2 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC3 updates or in the FC4 test release, reopen and change the version to match.
It is not currently patched as of Fedora Core 3, and likely hasn't made it into FC4test2, although I am not certain of that.
It's not in test2, no.
Changed to: Device ${DEVICE} has MAC address ${FOUNDMACADDR}, instead of configured address ${HWADDR}. Ignoring. for 8.17-1.