Bug 55285 - ifup loops on wrong HWADDR
Summary: ifup loops on wrong HWADDR
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: initscripts
Version: 7.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bill Nottingham
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-10-29 09:11 UTC by Harald Hoyer
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:24 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2001-10-29 09:12:03 UTC
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Description Harald Hoyer 2001-10-29 09:11:59 UTC 
Description of Problem:
ifup loops, if the wrong HWADDR is set.

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


How Reproducible:
ever

Steps to Reproduce:
1. edit ifcfg-eth0 with a wrong set HWADDR
2. /sbin/ifup eth0
3. watch the loop

Actual Results:
loops

Expected Results:
do not ifup i-face

Additional Information:
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2002-01-25 05:20:32 UTC 
Whoops. Fixed in 6.51-1 for the simple cases.
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