Hi!
I have big problems with my network setup. I get my IP-Adress
from a DHCP Server (which works fine) but my default route
never gets set. After digging for a while I found the reason
for it in the ifup-Skript in /etc/sysconfig/ifup.
(I can't say if this worked in Mandrake 7.1, but it worked in
older distributions like RH6.2).
Here are the offending lines with my comments:
Starting with line 110:
DHCP_ARGS=
if [ "XXX$DHCP_CLIENT" != "XXX" ];then
case $(basename $DHCP_CLIENT) in
dhcpcd)
[ -n "$DHCP_HOSTNAME" ] && DHCP_ARGS="-h $DHCP_HOSTNAME"
[ -n "$NEEDHOSTNAME" ] && DHCP_ARGS="$DHCP_ARGS -H"
DHCP_ARGS="$DHCP_ARGS $DEVICE"
;;
pump)
[ -n "$DHCP_HOSTNAME" ] && DHCP_ARGS="-h $DHCP_HOSTNAME"
[ -n "$NEEDHOSTNAME" ] && DHCP_ARGS="$DHCP_ARGS --lookup-hostname"
DHCP_ARGS="$DHCP_ARGS -i $DEVICE"
;;
dhcpxd)
# Dhcpxd don't support NEED_HOSTNAME ? guess i need time to patch
# this animal
[ -n "$DHCP_HOSTNAME" ] && DHCP_ARGS="-H $HOSTNAME"
DHCP_ARGS="$DHCP_ARGS $DEVICE"
;;
dhclient)
# Can't specify a host with dhclient ? same remark for
# $NEEDHOSTNAME this client suck !!!
DHCP_ARGS="$DEVICE"
;;
esac
fi
As you see, DHCP_ARGS never get a hint of the default gateway.
and now what comes next (line 138):
if [ -n "$DYNCONFIG" ]; then
echo -n "Determining IP information for $DEVICE via $(basename $DHCP_CLIENT)..."
if $DHCP_CLIENT $DHCP_ARGS ; then
echo " done."
else
echo " failed."
exit 1
fi
else
if [ -z "$NETMASK" ]; then
...
in this else part the GATEWAY variable from /etc/sysconfig/network
is used for adding the route but as I use DHCP is used this never gets
reached. To correct this bug you have to move line 169 - 178 out of the
else clause. (I don't see any reason why this is done in such a way).
Best regards,
Reinhard Katzman
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