system-config-network problem

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 13:43 -0800, Gerhard Magnus wrote:
> I'm in the process of replacing FC9 with FC10. As the boxes on my LAN are 
> ethernet-wired I've disabled NetworkManager and am running network. 
> Everything is working normally (access across the LAN and to the Internet) 
> except on the machine on which I have just installed FC10. Something keeps 
> replacing the Netmask entry I want for eth0 (255.255.255.0) with the 
> Gateway address (192.168.1.11). This occurs in both the 
> system-config-network widget and the 
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file. So I can't reach the 
> Internet from this box (although I can ssh to the other machines.) This 
> rewriting of the Netmask field keeps occurring in both places no matter 
> where (or how many times) I make the corrections. The network-scripts 
> directory does not contain a route-eth0 file which, in my understanding, 
> is another place where this problem might be occurring.  Thanks for the 
> help!
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terrible, stupid bug of initial release - you probably want to edit
manually instead of using system-config-network until you get updates
installed.

Craig