Bug 55285 – ifup loops on wrong HWADDR

Bug 55285 - ifup loops on wrong HWADDR

Summary:	ifup loops on wrong HWADDR

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	initscripts (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.2
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Bill Nottingham
QA Contact:	Brock Organ
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Reported:	2001-10-29 04:11 EST by Harald Hoyer
Modified:	2014-03-16 22:24 EDT (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2001-10-29 04:12:03 EST
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Description Harald Hoyer 2001-10-29 04:11:59 EST

Description of Problem:
ifup loops, if the wrong HWADDR is set.

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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

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Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2002-01-25 00:20:32 EST

Whoops. Fixed in 6.51-1 for the simple cases.

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