NetworkManager removes IP address from eth0 (bugzilla #132348 & #132038)

[G.Wolfe Woodbury]

On my test system I've had to disable NetworkManager since it removes
the IPv4 address when trying to re-initialize the eth0 (tulip) device.

Is anyone else seeing NM bad behaviour?

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[Dan Williams]

Hi,

Bad behavior here means mainly:

1) NM doesn't see some of your network devices (it gets its info from HAL, 
so if HAL can't see your network devices, neither will NM)
2) Link checking doesn't work (you plug/unplug the cable, but nothing 
happens after waiting a bit)

For (1), we need to fix HAL to make sure it can see the device

For (2), we need to fix the kernel drivers to use netif_carrier_*() 
routines, but some cards don't actually support link checking and for 
those, we are out of luck.

Dan

On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Gregory Woodbury wrote:

>  On my test system I've had to disable NetworkManager since it
> removes
>  the IPv4 address when trying to re-initialize the eth0 (tulip) device.
>  
>  Is anyone else seeing NM bad behaviour?
>  
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[Alan Cox]

On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 01:18:30AM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
>  For (2), we need to fix the kernel drivers to use netif_carrier_*() 
>  routines, but some cards don't actually support link checking and for 
>  those, we are out of luck. 
For those you have to lob out a few dhcp packets and see what happens

[David Zeuthen]

On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 01:18 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
>  For (1), we need to fix HAL to make sure it can see the device
>   
I believe this is the problem with the kernel module for a networking
card not being loaded right? I actually thought this was recently fixed
in the initscripts package with the "Initializing hardware.." stuff on
boot?

David

[Jim Cornette]

Gregory Woodbury wrote:
>  On my test system I've had to disable NetworkManager since it
> removes
>  the IPv4 address when trying to re-initialize the eth0 (tulip) device.
>  
>  Is anyone else seeing NM bad behaviour?
>   
I've had both of my NIC addresses removed and had to run dhclient to get 
the addresses there again. One occasion, I had to reset my router to get 
the inet addresses again.

This bad behavior does not happen often and I left everything as the 
default settings regarding network.

This probem doesn't seem to trash the upgraded system. It happens only 
on the fresh installation up to present.

my $.02

Jim