F9 potential service network bug?

Ahmed Kamal email.ahmedkamal at googlemail.com
Fri May 16 22:22:21 UTC 2008


ick, nope. Well, thanks for the hint :) But it should really work without
even disabling NM. Instead I'm getting this in the logs:
messages-20080514:May 13 09:15:32 magic1 nm-system-settings:
ifcfg-fedora:     error: Unknown connection type 'Bridge'

What else could be wrong?

On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 1:10 AM, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 2008-05-17 at 01:02 +0300, Ahmed Kamal wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have setup VirtualBox, and set up its bridged networking. The weird
> > part is that somehow the bridge and my eth0 (sky2) were not being
> > brought up on system start! I thought maybe it was NetworkManager
> > weirdness, so I disabled that service. Now here is what happens:
>
> After you've disabled NetworkManager, you need to also:
>
> chkconfig network on
>
> to get it to start at the right runlevels.  Have you done that?
>
> Dan
>
> > - Upon system start, I only get the following NICs: lo, vbox0
> > - If I immediately issue a "service network restart", I get the
> > following NICs: eth0, vboxbr0, vbox0, lo
> >
> > Obviously, since nothing changed that a possible bug! Here are my
> > relevant ifcfg files
> >
> > [root at magic1 network-scripts]# cat ifcfg-eth0
> > # Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8036 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller
> > DEVICE=eth0
> > BOOTPROTO=none
> > HWADDR=00:a0:d1:2c:c6:08
> > ONBOOT=yes
> > SEARCH="example.com"
> > NM_CONTROLLED=no
> > TYPE=Ethernet
> > BRIDGE=vboxbr0
> > [root at magic1 network-scripts]# cat ifcfg-vboxbr0
> > DEVICE=vboxbr0
> > TYPE=Bridge
> > BROADCAST=192.168.10.255
> > IPADDR=192.168.0.254
> > NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> > NETWORK=192.168.0.0
> > ONBOOT=yes
> > NM_CONTROLLED=no
> >
> >
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