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Support restoring network configurations on ancient OS releases (e.g. RHEL6) #1607

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rmetrich opened this issue Nov 29, 2017 · 1 comment
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Support restoring network configurations on ancient OS releases (e.g. RHEL6) #1607

rmetrich opened this issue Nov 29, 2017 · 1 comment
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  • rear version (/usr/sbin/rear -V): rear-2.2
  • OS version (cat /etc/rear/os.conf or lsb_release -a): rhel6
  • Brief description of the issue:

On RHEL6 systems, the network configuration of the system cannot be generated properly, typically when bridges are used. This is due to "ip link" not supporting "bridge" type. In such case "brctl" may be used instead.
Also "readlink" only accepts 1 file name on RHEL6, and network devices do not have "lower_*" nodes in /sys/class/net//

PR #1605 fixes all this.
Sorry for not having noticed that before.
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Merge pull request #1605 from rmetrich/Bridge
b9cf52f 
Reworked implementation in 310_network_devices.sh
so that it still supports older Linux distributions
like RHEL6 and SLES11 where in particular
'ip link' does not support the 'bridge' type and
'readlink' does not support more than one symlink,
see #1607
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jsmeix commented Dec 1, 2017

With #1605 merged
I consider this issue to be fixed.

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