Bug 28945 - default gateway causes IP failure
Summary: default gateway causes IP failure
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: routed
Version: 6.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Eido Inoue
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-02-22 22:43 UTC by Matthew Kilbride
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:31 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-02-22 22:43:23 UTC
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Description Matthew Kilbride 2001-02-22 22:43:19 UTC
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I have two nics, one public, one private.  When GATEWAY is set in
/etc/sysconfig/network, default route is listed with 'route -n', but
network is unreachable.  When I remove the GATEWAY value, restart
networking, and manually run 'route add default gw x.x.x.x', I am able to
ping both networks successfully.  I am running on the 2.4.1 kernel.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. set GATEWAY=ISP gateway in /etc/sysconfig/network
2. '/etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart'
3. ping www.anything.org   #ping fails
4. ping 10.1.1.4   #ping any public/private node/interface fails
5. comment GATEWAY=ISP_gateway in /etc/sysconfig/network
6. '/etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart'
7. 'route add default gw ISP_gateway
8. ping www.anything.org #ping any public/private node/interface succeeds
	

Actual Results:  with the failed pings, I get no results at all until I
<ctrl>-C, then I get either one or no received packet(s).  I don't even get
a "network unreachable' message during the ping.

Expected Results:  ping replys

I assume that this is not the fault of routed, however, and assume it has
to do with the scripts that have been developed to access
/etc/sysconfig/network, however, I have little experience with c or script
programming, and do not know what script/process is calling the file.  I am
not using X at all, and have made no changes through linuxconf, though I
have run it to see if there was something that I was missing.

Comment 1 Eido Inoue 2001-06-27 20:47:52 UTC
I was able to ping with both values of GATEWAY set as per your example.


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