Description of problem: When setting a static ip using edit of the 'network' menu, you set an ip address, a netmask and a default ip address. When this is saved in /etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-eth1, the netmask is wrongly set to value of the default gateway. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: using 'root' System->administration->network to edit the network device. Steps to Reproduce: 1. select system->administration->network 2. highlight which device. In my case it is eth1 3. press edit 4. change from dynamic addressing to static addressing 5. set the ip address (ex: 192.168.5.27) 6. set the netmask (255.255.255.0) 7. set the default gateway address (ex: 192.168.5.1) 8. save the configuration Actual results: if you reopen the above display, you will see the netmask has been changed to the value of 'default gateway address' if you check /etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-eth1, you will see the netmask has been altered to the value reported in the gui display. Expected results: setting the netmask should cause the config to accept the value supplied. ex: 255.255.255.0 Additional info:
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 470068 ***