interface misconfigured after successful restore

[kruntas]

Hi,

I have rear installed on RHEL 6 and experiencing the following issue:

in ip_addresses I have configured
eth0 192.168.80.100/18

restore finishes fine but in the ifcfg-eth0 it leaves me with:
IPADDR='192.168.80.100/18'
NETMASK=''

When I do a reboot it can't bring the eth0 interface up, because of misconfigured ifcfg-eth0 file.

Some insight would be appreciated.

Thanks

[gdha]

@kruntas Are you sure it should be eth0? The syntax looks correct to me. Perhaps, remove the ' and restart network.

[kruntas]

Hi,

original syntax that Red Hat requires is:

TYPE=Ethernet
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO='static'
IPV6INIT=no
USERCTL=no
IPADDR='192.168.80.100'
NETMASK='255.255.192.0'

After I do a recover, rear changes that file (ifcfg-eth0) and rewrites it with:
TYPE=Ethernet
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO='static'
IPV6INIT=no
USERCTL=no
IPADDR='192.168.80.100/18'
NETMASK=''

when I do a reboot, red hat cannot bring up the interface because it does not expect
IPADDR='192.168.80.100/18'
NETMASK=''

Regards

[gdha]

@kruntas ok - seems like RHEL6 is still using old style (RHEL7/Fedora) can cope with the new style.

[gdha]

added to the release notes so we can close this issue