Bug 19641 – if GATEWAY in ifcfg-ethX, duplicate default routes are added

Bug 19641 - if GATEWAY in ifcfg-ethX, duplicate default routes are added

Summary:	if GATEWAY in ifcfg-ethX, duplicate default routes are added

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	initscripts (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.0
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Bill Nottingham
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Reported:	2000-10-23 17:58 EDT by Pekka Savola
Modified:	2014-03-16 22:16 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2000-10-24 07:19:01 EDT
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Description Pekka Savola 2000-10-23 17:58:01 EDT

If you use GATEWAY= in ifcfg-ethX (e.g. netconfig does this), 
duplicate default routers will be added (one with metric 1, one with metric 0), 
unless you have the following line in /etc/sysconfig/network:

GATEWAY=

 .. This is caused by the following in /sbin/ifup:

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    # this is broken! it's only here for compatibility with old RH systems
    if [ "${GATEWAY}" != "" -a "${GATEWAY}" != "none" ]; then
        route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1 ${DEVICE}
    fi
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Happens in both RHL62 and RHL70.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2001-01-29 19:00:57 EST

The code will be removed as of 5.60-1.

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