Bug 70659 - tunl devices need to be added to hotplug blacklist
Summary: tunl devices need to be added to hotplug blacklist
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: hotplug
Version: 7.3
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Trond Eivind Glomsrxd
QA Contact: Brock Organ
URL:
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-08-03 13:07 UTC by Tony Nugent
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:45 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-08-03 13:19:20 UTC
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custom init script that manages tunl devices on a dynamic IP (4.57 KB, text/plain)
2002-08-03 13:19 UTC, Tony Nugent
no flags Details

Description Tony Nugent 2002-08-03 13:07:05 UTC
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Description of problem:
I use ip tunnels frequently, I call the devices (appropriately)
tunl0, tunl1, tunl2 and so on.
Hotplug goes berzerk trying to do something with them, and it can cause problems.

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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Set up an ipip tunnel...
  modprobe ipip
  ip tunnel  add     tunl1 mode ipip local $LOCAL remote $REMOTE
  ip address add dev tunl1 $IPADDR peer $PEERIP
  ip link    set dev tunl1 up
2. The above is essentially what I have in a script I have made...
  /etc/sysconfig/network-script/ifup-tunl
  (Copy of this script is attached).
3. bad things can happen when I use this script...
	

Actual Results:  hotplug goes nuts unless "tunl" is added to /etc/hotplug/blacklist
when I attempt to bring up a tunnel device called "tunl"

Expected Results:  hotplug should not attempt to manage tunl, gre or any other
virtual network devices (such as dummy).

Additional info:

Please see attachment for my ifup-tunl script
(ok, it is messy, noisy and overly complex and
aggressively turns of firewall mods and so on.

Please see notes at the top of the script for further notes.

It works for me, it should work by default like any other
network device configured to be used with /sbin/ifup and family.
I have been using essentially the same script since rh62, and
hotplug has been the only real problem.

Comment 1 Tony Nugent 2002-08-03 13:19:16 UTC
Created attachment 68707 [details]
custom init script that manages tunl devices on a dynamic IP

Comment 2 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2002-08-07 15:56:54 UTC
Done, in hotplug-2002_04_01-9


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