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