Bug 74319 - IPv4 routing scripts different from IPv6 routing
Summary: IPv4 routing scripts different from IPv6 routing
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: initscripts
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bill Nottingham
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-09-20 12:21 UTC by Jos Vos
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:31 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2003-07-22 10:27:43 UTC
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Description Jos Vos 2002-09-20 12:21:06 UTC 
Description of Problem:
The IPv6 scripts (like ifup-ipv6) still seem to use a static-routes-ipv6 file,
while this method is not used anymore for IPv4 scripts.  I think both methods
should be made as compatible as possible.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
6.95-1
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2002-11-12 06:55:57 UTC 
Yeah, this really should be going through the same interface.
Comment 2 Pekka Savola 2002-11-12 07:47:05 UTC 
I believe IPv6 part will be moving towards a similar route6-<interface> as well.
Comment 3 Pekka Savola 2002-11-12 08:13:21 UTC 
Hmm, it appears there are two formats, route-<interface> and <interface>.route
for IPv4.  Should both be supported, I guess route-<interface> is primary until
the Red Hat config tools support IPv6?
Comment 4 Jos Vos 2002-11-12 08:48:58 UTC 
AFAIK (although I've not looked at the current CVS version), route-<if> is for
manually adding routes and <if>.route is generated by the RH config tools, so
both should probably be supported.
Comment 5 Bill Nottingham 2002-11-12 16:25:33 UTC 
Correct; if redhat-config-network were to get IPv6 support, it would write to
<if>.route.
Comment 6 Pekka Savola 2003-07-22 10:27:43 UTC 
Note that RHL9 supports "route6-<device>" -type static routes.
As the configuration tools don't support IPv6 at the moment, I believe the other
format is not needed, and closing the bug as CURRENTRELEASE.
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