issue with $netdevices_up and squeeze

David Dreezer dave at socialstrata.com
Mon Dec 13 01:38:23 CET 2010


Hi,

I'm in the process of upgrading our FAI installation from Lenny to Squeeze and have run into a bit of a bug. I suspect that it is more of a Squeeze bug than a FAI bug, but I thought that I'd check here first as the help that I have received here is top notch :)

With some help from Michael Tautschig I'd developed a script that uses the variable $netdevices_up to determines the mac address of the client. It then does a search for a matching (mac address).var within $FAI/config/class/MAC.vars to give FAI the configuration data for the install that I wish to give. This had been working great! 

In working through the upgrade to Squeeze however, this script is failing.  The problem is that with Squeeze $netdevices_up returns all devices except LO, up or not. 

get-boot-info determines $netdevices_up like so:

    netdevices_up=$(ip link show up | grep "^[1-9$]" | cut -d : -f 2 | cut -d ' ' -f 2 | grep -v "^lo" | sort | uniq)

And on Squeeze "ip link show up" returns this.

root at db099:~# ip link show up
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN 
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 100
    link/ether 00:30:48:72:21:d6 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: eth1: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:30:48:72:21:d7 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

As you can see device 3, eth1 has no cable plugged into it, thus NO-CARRIER and state DOWN but it is still returned.  On Lenny device 3, eth1 wouldn't be returned.

I'd think this is a bug in Squeeze and that the intended behavior wasn't intentionally changed between Lenny and Squeeze, but I do not know for sure. I am also wondering if perhaps get-boot-info should be modified to handle this in case Squeeze was purposely changed, or doesn't get fixed any time soon?



David Dreezer
Customer Advocate, Social Strata, Inc.






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