Sure, this is minor but annoying and potentially a head-bang-into-wall
frustration for a user.
When adding a virtual network device, ifup is hosing the routing table by
adding two default routes if GATEWAYDEV is not specified in
/etc/sysconfig/network.
The cause is that there's no check of the routing tables for an existing
default gateway.
Here's my proposed solution starting on line 167 of /sbin/ifup:
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. /etc/sysconfig/network
DEFAULTEXISTS=` route | grep ^default`;
if [ "${DEFAULTEXISTS}" = "" ]; then
if [ "${GATEWAYDEV}" = "" -o "${GATEWAYDEV}" = "${DEVICE}" ]; then
# set up default gateway
if [ "${GATEWAY}" != "" ]; then
route add default gw ${GATEWAY} ${DEVICE}
DEFGW=${GATEWAY}
elif [ "${GATEWAYDEV}" = "${DEVICE}" ]; then
route add default ${DEVICE}
fi
fi
fi
fi
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I'd send a proper diff, but (like a fool who doesn't bother with GATEWAYDEV)
I didn't save the original.
Does this look workable?
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Matt Steven
Web Automation
GeniusWeb.com
(605)622.7811
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