Description of problem: I've observed unexpected behavior of ifconfig within the RHTS test environment. For example: ifconfig lo:1 \ address 192.168.128.1 \ netmask 255.255.252.0 \ broadcast 192.168.129.255 returns: address: Unknown host ifconfig: `--help' gives usage information. Whereas ifconfig lo:1 \ 192.168.128.1 \ netmask 255.255.252.0 \ broadcast 192.168.129.255 works fine. The former syntax works fine on Fedira 9 and a RHEL-5.2 install that I have with the same revision of net-tools as is included in the RHTS build (net-tools-1.60-78.el5) so I'm really not sure of the source of the problem. I've logged this against net-tools as a starting point. I believe both of these syntaxes should work fine everywhere (is that right?). The RHTS build being used (in this case) was RHEL5.3-Server-20081119.nightly. And the library dependencies of ifconfig were (containing package revisions included in brackets): linux-gate.so.1 => (oops, missed this one?) libselinux.so.1 => /lib/libselinux.so.1 (libselinux-1.33.4-5.1.el5) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (glibc-2.5-33) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (glibc-2.5-33) libsepol.so.1 => /lib/libsepol.so.1 (libsepol-1.15.2-1.el5) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (glibc-2.5-33) I've updated the RHTS test script to work around this so this report is for information in case we need to fix something prior to the 5.3 release. Ian
Hello, I tried to reproduce this bug, but I didn't succeeded. The syntax with "address" doesn't work at all. So, can you give me an access to the machine where this syntax works? Thanks Zdenek
(In reply to comment #1) > Hello, > I tried to reproduce this bug, but I didn't succeeded. The syntax with > "address" doesn't work at all. So, can you give me an access to the machine > where this syntax works? No. I work remotely so that's not possible but it shouldn't be hard to find a contradiction in the way this works. See the examples I'm uploading.
Created attachment 324824 [details] Test ifconfig on RHEL-5.2 based install
Created attachment 324825 [details] Test ifconfig on RHEL-5.1 based install
Created attachment 324826 [details] Test ifconfig on Fedora 8 based install
Created attachment 324827 [details] Test ifconfig on Fedora 9 based install
I don't really care which syntax is used but I don't like surprises like this between installs when developing RHTS tests because it needlessly costs time I don't have. So you tell me, which syntax is the one that should be enforced? The yays appear to outnumber the nays AFAICS.
The "address" syntax shouldn't work. ifconfig succeeds only if "address" is translated to IP. Please, could you try this? $ ifconfig lo:1 address netmask 255.255.252.0 broadcast 192.168.129.255 && ifconfig and $ cat /etc/hosts Anyway, use only syntax without "address"! Thanks
It seems, that you found the problem, so I'm closing the bug.