Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 55802
Changing ip addresses and restarting the network won't assume the new values.
Last modified: 2014-03-16 22:24:14 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2.1) Gecko/20010901 Description of problem: ip address network configuration is handled through /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth{something}. You set those addresses initially with the anaconda network configuration utility. When I tried to change this, I reedited the ifcfg-eth0 with the new ip address, netmask, and so on. Then I restarted the network by issuing /etc/init.d/network restart. The network "restarted" but the ip address kept being the same even I verified the script before and after. The same happens when I stopped the network, and started it again. However when we stopped the network and removing the module from the kernel manually and then starting it again, it worked.(The ip address got changed) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1.vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 2./etc/init.d/network restart 3. Actual Results: It didn't change the ip address Expected Results: It should have changed the ip address of the NIC card Additional info: cat ifcfg-eth0 (after editing the file) DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=static #IPADDR=172.16.255.11 IPADDR=167.252.62.225 #BROADCAST=172.16.255.255 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 #NETWORK=172.16.255.0 ONBOOT=yes [root@hobbes root]# /etc/init.d/network restart Shutting down interface eth0: [ OK ] Shutting down interface eth1: [ OK ] Disabling IPv4 packet forwarding: [ OK ] Setting network parameters: [ OK ] Bringing up interface lo: [ OK ] Bringing up interface eth0: [ OK ] Bringing up interface eth1: [ OK ] [root@hobbes root]# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:46:05:8A:FB inet addr:172.16.255.11 Bcast:172.16.255.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:12 carrier:0 collisions:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:504 (504.0 b)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 53531 ***
Why is this closed ? I have a dozen servers running 7.2 with this exact problem, the network scripts delete only the new address when bringing down the interface, and leaving the original.
It is closed as a duplicate of 53531, because it *is* a duplicate of 53531. (And, a fix does exist.)
The actual solution was to upgrade to the newest version available according to a message I got later that same day. What left me annoyed was that the _latest_ version was not on the 7.2 production RPMS tree, _but_ within the Rawhide. Isn't Red Hat considering to release a stable version of the initscripts RPM in the updates directory as an official update? Thanks. Carlos. P.s. I'm using initscripts 6.40.2, right now...