From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 Description of problem: If you do not specify BROADCAST= in config files for alias interfaces, the broadcast address will be not recalculated if already specified in parent's interface configuration file. That's because ifup-aliases evaluates variable from parent interface's configuration file (somewhere before the declaration of function ini_env()), and if BROADCAST is already specified in $PARENTCONFIG, a variable default_BROADCAST is set with parent interface's broadcast, and then ini_env() which is performed for every alais interface initializes BROADCAST with default_BROADCAST, so [ -z "$BROADCAST" ] from function new_interface() will return false for every alias interface, causing BROADCAST not to be recalculated. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. comment/delete BROADCAST=something line from a primary interface configuration file, if any (line like this); 2. edit a secondary interface and do not specify the broadcast address. 3. ifup-alias ethX && ip add sh dev ethX:Y. Actual Results: The broadcast address will be that of the primary interface. Expected Results: The broadcast address should be calculated for every secondary interface. Additional info:
Changed in 7.03-1.