[ydl-gen] default gateway on 6.1 - how?

[Florin Andrei]

Florin Andrei wrote:
> 
> I know I could just do a "route add -net default ..." in rc.local and 
> thus patch it up, but I want to know what is the "official" way to 
> define the default gateway on YDL 6.1, if it's different from the RH way.

I did some troubleshooting and it all seems to boil down to a command in 
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/network-functions in the function called 
find_gateway_dev()

ip route get to "${GATEWAY}"

Normally, this command works fine if I run it after the system has 
finished booting up. But it doesn't seem to work correctly while the 
system is still booting up, the ip utility throws an error at that time:

RTNETLINK answers: Network is unreachable

This is because at that time the interface is not yet configured - I 
hacked the script and added an "ifconfig eth0" at that point and this is 
the result:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
           BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:852 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:826 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
           RX bytes:59474 (58.0 KiB)  TX bytes:95893 (93.6 KiB)
           Interrupt:52

I'll have to stop here because it's late and I need to go to sleep, but 
this is quite puzzling. If these scripts were forklifted from Red Hat / 
CentOS, I know they work fine on those distributions, then why they 
don't on YDL?

Is it possible that the interface is still "settling" and will 
eventually show the correct address? That means a delay is needed somewhere.
Or is it simply not configured yet at that time - but that means it's a 
bug in the scripts. It's too late for me now to follow the logic of all 
the network scripts.

BTW, I forgot to backup /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/network-functions 
and it's hacked pretty badly - I'll have to restore it from an RPM. 
grrrrr :-(

-- 
Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/