Bug 489771 - dhclient runs on bridge interface before physical interfaces are added
Summary: dhclient runs on bridge interface before physical interfaces are added
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: initscripts
Version: 4.7
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: initscripts Maintenance Team
QA Contact: BaseOS QE
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-03-11 19:03 UTC by Ray Van Dolson
Modified: 2009-03-18 20:44 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2009-03-18 20:44:43 UTC
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Patch against RHEL4 inittscripts to fix bridge behavior (3.45 KB, patch)
2009-03-11 19:03 UTC, Ray Van Dolson
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Description Ray Van Dolson 2009-03-11 19:03:09 UTC
Created attachment 334849 [details]
Patch against RHEL4 inittscripts to fix bridge behavior

See #125259.

Description of problem:
If we configure a bridge to use DHCP, dhclient gets called on the bridge interface before member interfaces have been added to it.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
7.93.33-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set up a bridge br0 and configure it to use DHCP
2. Configure physical interface, eth0 as a bridge member.
3. Restart server
  
Actual results:
No IP address is acquired on br0.

Expected results:
IP address should be acquired on br0.

Additional info:
This can be fixed by applying the attached patch.  This has been fixed in Fedora, and may or may not still be an issue in RHEL5 (haven't checked).  It should be corrected in both.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2009-03-18 20:44:43 UTC
     This problem is resolved in the next major release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Red Hat does not currently plan to provide a resolution for this in a RHEL 4 update for currently deployed systems.

    With the goal of minimizing risk of change for deployed systems, and in response to customer and partner requirements, Red Hat takes a conservative approach when evaluating changes for inclusion in maintenance updates for currently deployed products. The primary objectives of update releases are to enable new hardware platform support and to resolve critical defects.


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