Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 251112
system-config-network is too restrictive in parsing route-itf# files
Last modified: 2008-05-17 04:46:11 EDT
Description of problem: The system-config-network tool allows to enter just a network/mask without a gateway in the route entering dialog. This is an absolutely legal situation and initscripts handle this correctly - such routes are handled as if they are available directly on the given eth0 device. However, if you restart system-config-network, it will fail to parse the file created by himself. It says "static routes file eth0 is invalid" and all saved routes are lost. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): system-config-network-1.3.96-1.fc6 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Launch system-config-network and open the settings dialog for some network card. 2. On the second "routes" page add a new route and input just the network and the submask. Press OK. 3. File->Save and exit the tool. 4. Launch the tool again. Actual results: Displays the message "static routes file eth0 is invalid" and all routes are lost (even valid). Expected results: No message or at least valid routes not being lost.
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This bug seems fixed now.