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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 Description of problem: ifup-routes adds routes from both eth0.route and route-eth0 and ignores the "old format" file /etc/sysconfig/static-routes Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.run neat, add a static route 2.run ifup-routes eth0 3.see errors Actual Results: RTNETLINK answers: File exists Additional info: I used "neat" to add some static routes. Neat created two files of interest: /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/eth0.route /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-eth0 Both of these files contain the information about the static routes that I want to establish, but they are in different formats. When ifup-routes is run, it first tests to see if /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/eth0.route exists. If it doesn't, ifup-routes exits. If it does, ifup-routes then uses this file to add the desired routes. It then (according to the comments) uses the "old style" file in route-eth0 to attempt to add the same routes again. There are two problems with this. First is that it should use one or the other of these files (or neat should only create one or the other). I think ifup-routes should check to see if the "new" format file exists and use it if it exists. The second problem with shows up if the eth0.route file doesn't exist. In this case, I think ifup-routes should use the old format that used to be in /etc/sysconfig/static-routes so that it will be backwards compatible with RH7.3.
static-routes is deprecated, there was massive docs fubarness for this. This is fixed in CVS. As to neat, it should really only write to one file; that's a separate bug.