Bug 477678 - incorrect data saved to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
Summary: incorrect data saved to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 469434
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: system-config-network
Version: 10
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Harald Hoyer
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-12-22 21:36 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2008-12-24 10:55 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2008-12-24 10:55:11 UTC
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Description Need Real Name 2008-12-22 21:36:11 UTC 
the 
rpm -q system-config-network
system-config-network-1.5.93-2.fc10.noarch
saves incorrect data to 
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
The 
NETMASK field gets value of IP address or gateway.
Thus the static eth0 interface created by system-config-network
is unusable.
Only manual edit of /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
and setting NETMASK=255.255.255.0 
can make interface working.
Comment 1 Jonathan S. Shapiro 2008-12-23 14:14:14 UTC 
The problem is somewhat worse than described. If the ifcfg-ethX file is hand-edited, and system-config-network is re-run, then the netmask field is once again mis-set and the machine is effectively taken off of the network.

Priority on this should be changed to *high*, because this will break connectivity for every unsophisticated user who is configured using static IP.

I haven't looked at source for this (traveling), but this really smells like somebody made a sloppy two line change somewhere and didn't even make a casual test.
Comment 2 Jiri Moskovcak 2008-12-24 10:55:11 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 469434 ***
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