I file a separate bug for the issue mentioned in bug #602185 comment #6 I did a minimal install; during that I've setup static network info and succesfully loaded repositories from the Internet after rebooting and starting network, the Internet was unreachable I've found that this was because the default gateway was missing but in ifcfg-eth0 there was GATEWAY0=the.ip.of.gateway examining the scripts, it looks like ifup-eth is unable to cope with the trailing zero in "GATEWAY0" - after deleting it and restarting the service the gateway is set up correctly initscripts-9.37-1.fc17.x86_64 +++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #602185 +++
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771673 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 708409 ***
thanks, sorry for the duplicate ... what's up with bugzilla today, this should had shown up in search - I've found the abovementioned comment in #602185 and not the bug #708409 which has very similar subject to this one? :-/