REQUEST: specific narrow focus list for my participation

[George (Skip) VerDuin]

Greetings,

It is my expectation that your interests and mine are best served by my
participation in some area that is a fairly narrow focus - networking.
I could use your guidance.

I am actively developing a documentation wiki for application software
in ham radio digital communication topic area.  It fits on my own FC
platform and as such I expect to provide links to specific FC Docs
project pages.  That is the easy part which does not need help from
yourselves.  I have come upon a feature in FC-6 that does not function,
has little written about it, but probably does not constitute a bug.  It
is here that I see I might fit.

Specific to this subject, using the "ifconfig" statement to establish an
alias IP address does produce what seems to be a valid definition, but
when a packet is built it contains an incorrect source IP address.  This
is true on FC-6 up-to-date within weeks, but not true on ubuntu platform
operated by an associate of mine.  Until FC documentation contains the
passage to describe the "should be" definition (that I can not locate
and believe may not exist) I can not consider this situation to be a
software bug.

IF I am correct in my assertion, I am willing to draft a topic specific
FC-docs text as well as the alert text to my software users regarding FC
and an appropriate workaround.  If I am not correct, perhaps I have
wasted your time...

So, I ask your direction into the group of developers for this subject
area to explore the options at hand?

Warmest regards from here,
George

[Karsten Wade]

On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 14:59 +0000, George (Skip) VerDuin wrote:
> Specific to this subject, using the "ifconfig" statement to establish an
> alias IP address does produce what seems to be a valid definition, but
> when a packet is built it contains an incorrect source IP address.  This
> is true on FC-6 up-to-date within weeks, but not true on ubuntu platform
> operated by an associate of mine.  Until FC documentation contains the
> passage to describe the "should be" definition (that I can not locate
> and believe may not exist) I can not consider this situation to be a
> software bug.

The way you describe it, it sounds more like a bug.  Is there any reason
not to file a bug report on it?

Search for a similar report:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/query.cgi?format=simple

And/or file a report on the 'net-tools' package that
provides /sbin/ifconfig:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora%20Core

If it does turn out to need a mention in the documentation, then it
would belong here somewhere:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/AdministrationGuide

thx - Karsten

[George (Skip) VerDuin]

Thanks for the kind reply Karsten.

On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 03:42 -0700, Karsten Wade wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 14:59 +0000, George (Skip) VerDuin wrote:
> The way you describe it, it sounds more like a bug.  Is there any reason
> not to file a bug report on it?

Yes - incomplete understanding that my research has not yet resolved.
It is equally (more?) likely I missed a step in configuration as it is
there is a bug, and I am facing a topic that seems to be very little
published.  Admittedly I have not read the appropriate RFCs.

Please appreciate my use of the alias feature is based on verbal (plus
email) exchange with a network pro using the same feature on another
linux variety without error in his install - and he is stumped.  My real
problem is lack of reading material to check the details of my
configuration.

So yes I hesitate to call this error a bug until I can read this
material - and it seems as though the admin doc is the place I *should*
find it?  I don't see bugzilla as an aid to education...
> Search for a similar report:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/query.cgi?format=simple
>
> And/or file a report on the 'net-tools' package that
> provides /sbin/ifconfig:

Did the search - could not get a hit.
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora%20Core
>
> If it does turn out to need a mention in the documentation, then it
> would belong here somewhere:

Searched the text - could not get a hit again.
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/AdministrationGuide
>
> thx - Karsten

I am adding a search for the RFCs that apply as well as scouring Linux
doc project as well as RedHat doc until I can qualify my configuration.
After that I'll pull together what I can and suggest added material for
the admin guide you point out.  Thanks again for your reply - chat
later...
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Warmest regards from here,
George