Hello,
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 02:43:14PM -0500, William R Somsky wrote:
> I'm seeing the following issue w/ SL7 installation:
>
> - Doing a network install w/ http acquired kickstart
>
> - The kickstart package selection is "--nobase @core"
>
> - The kickstart file has the following static ip declaration:
>
> network --device=link --activate
> --hostname=<xxx> --bootproto=static --noipv6
> --ip=<xxx> --netmask=<xxx> --gateway=<xxx> --nameserver=<xxx>,<xxx>
>
> - The install works fine, and the network comes up properly.
> Specifically, (w/ <gateway> being the proper gateway address):
>
> #] ip route
> default via <gateway> dev em1 proto static metric 1024
> x.x.x.0/23 dev em1 proto kernel scope link src x.x.x.x
>
> - The file /etc/sysconfig/network contains just a comment,
> and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-em1 contains:
>
> [...]
> GATEWAY0=<gateway>
Does it work correctly if you change this from GATEWAY0= to GATEWAY= ?
Red Hat will fix this in a future release as you can see in this report:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1105770
> DEFROUTE=yes
> [...]
>
> - However, this is for non-mobile, desktop workstations w/ assigned
> IP addresses, and I don't like having NetworkManager around
> potentially messing w/ the static network settings.
>
> - In the past (SL5,SL6), I've just not installed NetworkManager
> and everything works fine and dandy.
I've done the same with RHEL5/6 for static routes, there is really no need
to have NetworkManager running then...
>
> - In SL7, however, if NetworkManager is not present, (deinstalled
> or not installed in the first place) the network does *not* come
> up properly: the ip address is fine, but the routing is wrong:
>
> #] ip route
> 169.254.0.0/16 dev em1 scope link metric 1002
> x.x.x.0/23 dev em1 proto kernel scope link src x.x.x.x
>
> So what gives? We shouldn't need NetworkManager for static ip's.
best regards,
Florian La Roche
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