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Subject: i386/8787: install process hangs while adding default gateway
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>Number:         8787
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       install process hangs while adding default gateway
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Nov 21 13:20:01 PST 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Dan Mack
>Organization:
>Release:        3.0-RELEASE
>Environment:
FreeBSD coco 3.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE #0: Fri Nov 20 14:14:37 1998
root@coco:/usr/sr/csys/compile/COCO   i386

>Description:
I noticed this problem during an ftp install.  It was the first install I
did from my home lan.  The netmask for my lan is 0xfffffff8 so during
the install phase, I entered 255.255.255.248 as the netmask.  I also entered
my gateway address.

When I clicked okay to go on to the next phase, the installer hung during the
adding default gateway phase.

>From the shell, I noticed that indeed, the route command was hung doing a
'route add default gw'.  From the shell, I took at look at the output of
ifocnfig for xl0 and this exposed what I believe to be the problem.

Even though I had entered 255.255.255.248 on the form, the install program had
used a value of 0xffffffee which is clearly incorrect.

My guess is that there is something wrong with either decimal->hex conversion
or, the full screen gui-install-dialog doesn't pass the correct value to 
ifconfig.


>How-To-Repeat:
Try to do an ftp install from a subnet with a netmask of 255.255.255.248.
Enter this in the network setup dialog box and then check was your interface
gets configured with.

>Fix:
No known fix at this time other than to manually configure the interface.

>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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