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
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: initscripts
Version: 7.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bill Nottingham
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-10-23 21:58 UTC by Pekka Savola
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:16 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-10-24 11:19:01 UTC

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Description Pekka Savola 2000-10-23 21:58:01 UTC 
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:

---
    # 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 2001-01-30 00:00:57 UTC 
The code will be removed as of 5.60-1.
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