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Description of problem:
Neat inserts the HWADDR in the ifcfg file, but /sbin/if(up|down) cannot handle
tokenring correctly.

This would not be a big deal (workaround, remove HWADDR line from ifcfg file),
if it did not hang the machine on shutdown.


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


How reproducible:
Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
Note: I have had this problem more often, but have currently no access to a
token ring network.
1. Use neat to configure your tokenring card
2. shutdown

    

Actual Results:  Hang on the shutdown of the network

Expected Results:  Machine should have gone down.

Additional info:

From /sbin/ifdown (also in ifup)

if [ -n "${HWADDR}" ]; then
    FOUNDMACADDR=`LC_ALL= LANG= ip -o link show ${REALDEVICE} | \
        sed 's/.*link\/ether \([[:alnum:]:]*\).*/\1/'`
    if [ "${FOUNDMACADDR}" != "${HWADDR}" ]; then

The problem is that neat inserts your HWADDR in the ifcfg-tr0. The above line
only searches for ethernet hardware addresses. The result is that shutdown
hangs. (I have no clue how NEAT can get the device up in the first place).

Solution would be to replace 'ether' with something like '[^ ]*'