Bug 61287 - Gateway setting defaults to wrong ip
Summary: Gateway setting defaults to wrong ip
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: 7.3
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael Fulbright
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-03-16 01:25 UTC by Christian Rose
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:40 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-03-16 01:25:27 UTC
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Description Christian Rose 2002-03-16 01:25:23 UTC 
When I enter network information in anaconda, the "Gateway:" field will always
default to xxx.yyy.zzz.254 in the given network.
Isn't this wrong? All networks I have ever encountered use the first ip address
in the ip range for the gateway, so I think using xxx.yyy.zzz.1 for the gateway
would be a better default in anaconda.
Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2002-03-16 06:40:00 UTC 
Not wrong... there is no standard at all, unfortunately  :(
Comment 2 Christian Rose 2002-03-16 11:55:26 UTC 
On the other hand, most other software installers default to xxx.yyy.zzz.1 for
the gateway as far as I know, so there might be a reason to change the default
in Anaconda so as to not be different on purpose when there's no real standard.
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