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IDProjectCategoryView StatusDate SubmittedLast Update
0000026ClearOSapp-network - Network Settingspublic2010-02-09 12:302010-02-23 14:33
Reporteruser2 
Assigned Touser2 
PriorityurgentSeveritymajorReproducibilitysometimes
StatusclosedResolutionfixed 
PlatformOSOS Version
Product Version5.1 
Target Version5.1Fixed in Version5.1 
Summary0000026: PPPoE reconfiguration may fail due to underlying network card settings
DescriptionIf a PPPoE connection is reconfigured (for example, a username/password change), the ClearOS system may fail to create the Internet connection. This is caused by a missing parameter in the underlying network card configuration.

When a PPPoE connection is configured, two sets of configuration files are required (ahhh PPPoE, will you ever be less kludgy?). For a typical ppp0 connection, the configuration files are:

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0

The ifcfg-ppp0 contains all the PPPoE connection information, while the ifcfg-eth0 contains the physical network card configuration used by PPPoE:

DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO="none"
ONBOOT="no"
HWADDR="11:22:33:11:22:33"

The underlying operating system needs to have the network MAC address stored in its configuration. Without this MAC address, the name and order of network cards is indeterminate. This setting is missing when a PPPoE connection is reconfigured. That... can be bad.
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user2
2010-02-23 14:33

Software Update CCBA-2010:030: http://clearsdn.clearcenter.com/software/detail.php?aid=30 [^]

- Issue History
Date Modified Username Field Change
2010-02-09 12:30 user2 New Issue
2010-02-09 12:30 user2 Status new => assigned
2010-02-09 12:30 user2 Assigned To => user2
2010-02-09 14:01 user2 Status assigned => resolved
2010-02-09 14:01 user2 Fixed in Version => 5.1
2010-02-09 14:01 user2 Resolution open => fixed
2010-02-23 14:33 user2 Note Added: 0000043
2010-02-23 14:33 user2 Status resolved => closed