loki wrote:
> Heya all,
>
> wanted just to point to a small bug in the network boot scripts.
> (/sbin/ifup; /sbin/ifdown; /lib/lsb/ipv4-static;
> /lib/lsb/ipv4-static-route; /etc/init.d/network )
>
> For simple network setups it isn't a problem but for complex route
> setups it is. The problem is in /sbin/ifup.
>
> The problematic part is:
>> # Set the route default gateway if requested
>> if [ -n "${GATEWAY}" ]; then
>> if ip route | grep -q default; then
>> log_warning_msg "\nGateway already setup; skipping."
>> else
>> log_info_msg "Setting up default gateway..."
>> ip route add default via ${GATEWAY} dev ${IFACE}
>> evaluate_retval
>> fi
>> fi
> It will always set up a default gateway even if you don't want one
> for instance if you use "TYPE=ipv4-static-route"
>
> So if you have multiple network cards with several static routes it
> will setup the first one it reads as default gateway
> and the other it won't setup at all.
>
> I.E.: Two network cards. 1. network card eth0 (Address 10.0.0.0/16
> and routes for
> 192.168.0.0/16 via 10.0.0.1 and 172.16.0.0/16 via 10.0.0.1)
> 2. network card eth1 (Address 5.5.5.5/24 and default gateway through
> 5.5.5.1)
>
> With this setup it will put default gateway through 10.0.0.1 and the
> rest it won't setup because it states that the default gateway is
> already setup.
>
>
> I had the problem. I installed the network scripts from LFS 7.0 and
> they work as expected.
The changes were made to support bridging in April 2012. If you just
comment out the GATEWAY entry in /etc/sysconfig/ifconfig.dev, wouldn't
that do what you want?
Note that you can set SERVICE to do more than ont thing. For example:
SERVICE="bridge ipv4-static" # Space separated
-- Bruce
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