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gnome-system-tools package

network admin: can't set gateway outside my class when setting static address

Bug #241572 reported by mspanc
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: network-manager

It is impossible to configure interface using static address, when gateway is outside my class.

It's no so common, but is technically possible.

E.g. config:

IP 192.168.0.1
mask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1

should be equivalent to

ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
route add 192.168.1.1 dev eth0
route add default gw 192.168.1.1 dev eth0

It works OK under windows, where you have warning but it's still possible to force gateway outside class.

Tags: iso-testing
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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

in hardy NM didnt support static IPs. thus i guess its network-admin instead.

Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)
tags: added: iso-testing
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Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek) wrote :

Can not set a static IP address using the live environment 8.04.4 dated 2010-01-21.1. If set using network manager, the system refuses to open any other applications, can not obtain logs because the connection is missing, and can not save to any device even in a tty.

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Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan) wrote :

Charlie, this has nothing to do with network-admin if you say you're using NetworkManager (but I think in Hardy it does not support static IPs). Your comment is far to vague to be helpful as-is, I guess you should open a new report.

Anyway, about this bug report, you should try NetworkManager in Lucid because it's highly unlikely that anything will happen in network-admin, let alone backporting it to Hardy. Sorry!

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Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek) wrote :

This has been fixed in Maverick development release. Using the following:

E.g. config:

IP 192.168.51.4
mask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.52.1

I am now able to access the internet after making the changes in both terminal using the route commands and /etc/network/interfaces

Changed in gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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