On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 3:28 PM, ToddAndMargo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Two days ago, one of my workstations upgrade a ton of packages. It is not
> on SL 6.5. This workstation uses static networking.
>
> Two things showed up that are of concern (both messed up my
> firewall script which reads and uses these values):
>
> 1) my "GATEWAY=" setting was removed from /etc/sysconfig/network
> and moved to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
>
> "ifup eth1" will now read the "GATEWAY=" from ifcfg-eth1. If moved back to
> /etc/sysconfig/network, ifup will no longer read it.
>
> Has "GATEWAY" in /etc/sysconfig/network been depreciated?
>
> 2) in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1, "BOOTPROTO=" got changed
> from "static" to "none".
>
> Has this also been depreciated?
>
> Anyone know of a working document from Red Hat dealing with
> what is current for ifcfg-ethx and /etc/sysconfig/network?

GATEWAY works whether it's in network or ifcfg-*.

"static" has always been incorrect because it isn't a boot protocol.
Since the scripts only check for "dhcp" and bootp" you could use
"ToddAndMargo" and you'd still get a static address.

(Are you sure that another admin didn't make these changes?)

I can't give you an exact path at the moment but there's a
"sysconfig.txt" file in "/usr/share/doc/initscripts-<ver>/".