Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 22:51:52 -0700 From: Deborah Gronke Bennett <deborah@microunity.com> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: misc/1298: Network misconfiguration after 2.1 install from CD, then net Message-ID: <199606060551.WAA04097@traken.microunity.com> Resent-Message-ID: <199606060600.XAA05527@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 1298 >Category: misc >Synopsis: Network misconfiguration after 2.1 install from CD, then net >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Wed Jun 5 23:00:00 PDT 1996 >Last-Modified: >Originator: Deborah Gronke Bennett >Organization: MicroUnity Systems Engineering, Inc. >Release: FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386 >Environment: Two different machines. Both are Pentium, with Triton Motherboard. BusLogic SCSI. One has 2 disks and a CD-ROM. The other has one disk and a CD-ROM. No IDE disks. One machine has ATI-Mach64, the other has ATI-Mach 32 graphics. One has 3COM lan card, the other has SMC lan card. >Description: I installed the X-User cluster from the Express menu, using a local SCSI CD-ROM as my media. I then installed the DES package (all pieces) from the Custom menu, using a filesystem on a local server via nfs as my media. (The install directory on the server contains more than the DES install files). The server is on the same subnet as the machine being installed. After both installs, I checked the network interfaces section of the Configuration menu. The information I had entered for the server which made the nfs install possible (i.e. IP addr, nameserver IP addr, gateway IP addr, netmask value) was still in the menu, and it was correct. After the system rebooted when I exited the installation, the network did not come up configure properly. The netmask was wrong (ff000000) among other things. After several attempts, I discovered that if I performed the exact same steps as above, except that I installed the X-User cluster from NFS from that same fileserver, my result was different. After the reboot after installation, the machine came up with the correct network configuration. I tracked down the problem - the line in /etc/sysconfig which should read ifconfig_de0="inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask 255.255.255.0" was missing after the first install above, but present after the second. I believe this is a bug, since all the other information that I entered (such as hostname, host's IP addr, defaultrouter) did get placed in /etc/sysconfig. >How-To-Repeat: see description >Fix: Always install from NFS. Or, go fix the /etc/sysconfig file after the install. >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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