Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 446527
no gateway route setup for network
Last modified: 2008-05-22 12:12:09 EDT
Description of problem: When I installed fedora 9, I told it to initialize the network at boot time with a static address and provided all the info including the default gateway (a linksys router) at 192.168.1.1. When the system boots, there is no gateway in the route tables. After booting, if I manually type: ip route add default via 192.168.1.1 then I can get to the outside world (before that only local devices on the 192.168.1.0/24 lan were talking). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): This is whatever was shipped with the fedora 9 x86_64 DVD image, and I doubt system-config-network is even the right component, but I have no idea what other component to report. How reproducible: Every time I boot. Steps to Reproduce: 1. see above Actual results: no default gateway Expected results: default gateway Additional info: If I bring up the properties for the eth0 device in the network config app, the gateway field does indeed have 192.168.1.1 in it, but it doesn't seem to actually take effect when the system boots. If I run nm-tool, it shows eth0 with a 0.0.0.0 gateway.
I just got the iproute-2.6.25-1.fc9.x86_64 update installed, and thought that might have something to do with this bug, but when I rebooted, I still had no route to my gateway :-(.
On my machine at work, I also don't get DNS info in resolv.conf, even though I specified it at installation time the same way I did when installing at home. Disabling the NetworkManager service and enabling network instead fixes everything. Maybe anaconda should just do that when you specify a static IP?
Tom: installation with Anaconda within the past few weeks will write out the correct DNS information to your ifcfg files, which will allow NetworkManager to set up your DNS correctly. NM handles static IPs and static DNS just fine as long as anaconda writes out the stuff correctly. I verified this yesterday with a Fedora 9 Gold LiveCD install. Could you attach your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file so we can see if it's set up correctly?
Created attachment 305533 [details] /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 from sys with no DNS Here's the eth0 script from the system at work which had no DNS info. I swear I put it in during install (which was using the i386 DVD image from the official f9 release). In fact, I must have put it in, because which I switched back to the network script instead of NetworkManager, everything worked, so it did have the info somewhere.
Created attachment 305634 [details] ifcfg-eth0 from fresh f9 install here is my ifcfg-eth0, static network configuration during install, and now no default route on boot. Fix in Bug #446428 resolves the problem
mmm no doesn't really fix the problem, sorry, the network connection is messy, some apps (firefox, packagekit) think the computer is offline. So i remove the ifcfg-eth0 and now NetworkManager find the link and network is fine (not static as i wish but I can wait till it get fixed)
I think the issue is a missing gateway in the ifcfg file, which is probably in /etc/sysconfig/network actually. I'll push an update to pull info from that file if the ifcfg file doesn't have it. Can you attach your /etc/sysconfig/network file?
Created attachment 305986 [details] /etc/sysconfig/network Here's the network file. I'm pretty sure it has all the info correct since everything worked fine once I disabled NetworkManager and enabled network.
Thanks; that's what I need. Will be fixed in an update for F9; already fixed in rawhide with svn3675 and later.
When they finish, can you try: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=618281 thanks!
Of course you'll want to: /sbin/chkconfig NetworkManager on /sbin/chkconfig network off service NetworkManager start after installing the new packages.
Hey, it worked! I installed the x86_64 packages from comment #10 above, disabled network, enabled NetworkManager, and rebooted, and my network was functional. Didn't have to add the gateway by hand. Of course, now I've added bug 447442 :-).
Awesome, closing this one then. Thanks!
NetworkManager-0.7.0-0.9.3.svn3675.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9