Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 451002
rhpl will always pad single-digit octets in IP address with a 0
Last modified: 2012-06-20 11:56:43 EDT
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #157657 +++ Related to bug 129840 FC4 test3 but goes back to RHEL3 and probably even earlier: python -c "from rhpl import ethtool; print ethtool.get_ipaddr('lo')" 127.00.00.01 This means we cannot use the output to popuate things like ifcfg-* because of the padded octet. up2date uses rhpl.ethtool to extract network interface information, and that information is put in RHN, and RHN tries to deploy configuration files by doing macro expansion with info from the database. -- Additional comment from mihai.ibanescu@gmail.com on 2005-05-13 11:00 EST -- The problem seems to be in ethtool.c line 196 sprintf(ipaddr, "%02u.%02u.%02u.%02u", (unsigned int)ifr.ifr_addr.sa_data[2] % 256, (unsigned int)ifr.ifr_addr.sa_data[3] % 256, (unsigned int)ifr.ifr_addr.sa_data[4] % 256, (unsigned int)ifr.ifr_addr.sa_data[5] % 256); Is there a reason why it's doing the padding? -- Additional comment from clumens@redhat.com on 2005-05-16 11:54 EST -- None that I can see. Fixed in CVS.
Created attachment 309050 [details] suggested patch
Bug is still present in RHEL4 and breaks Satellite's provisioning.
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setting flag rhel4.9 ? This bug has a downstream effect on Satellite provisioning (see bug 129840). A fix should be considered in the next release.
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