Comment # 5 on bug 1184460 from Knut Alejandro Anderssen Gonz���lez

(In reply to Imobach Gonzalez Sosa from comment #4)
> Hi,
> 
> Sorry, I overlooked that one. Knut, do you think we should adapt
> AutoYaST/network to behave the same way in both situations?
> 
> Thanks!

Yep, I think we should (In reply to Georg Pfuetzenreuter from comment #0)
> 4.11.4  Routing:
> 
> https://doc.opensuse.org/projects/autoyast/#CreateProfile-Network-Routing
> 
> Hello,
> 
> whilst the "netmask" Element is declared as deprecated, the Comment suggests
> a CIDR style netmask should be added to the destination Element. Having done
> that, I was faced with broken routing in both the installation stage one, as
> well as in the final install, as the system would NOT have a default route
> added. Only after removing the CIDR style netmask from the destination
> element (in order for it to only show the "pure" IP address of the gateway)
> a (working) default gateway would be present on the installation and final
> system.

Could you provide the routing section used? So, it was the default route and
you provided something like:

<routing>
  <route>
    <destination>0.0.0.0/0</destination>
    <name>eth0</name>
    <gateway>192.168.0.1</gateway>
  </route>
</routing>

Which could be defined as:

<routing>
  <route>
    <destination>default</destination>
    <name>eth0</name>
    <gateway>192.168.0.1</gateway>
  </route>
</routing>

In that case I agree that we should explain it better in the routing section
and in case of a default route using the CIDR format we should initialize the
route correctly.

> 
> This makes sense, as the "ip route add" command does not take a netmask
> either. I assume the script fails to detect and remove the bogus netmask
> before trying to feed it into the routing table, and hence fails, leaving
> the system with no route present.
> 
> Hence I deem the documentation to be misleading, as it is suggesting the
> user a netmask should be added to the default routing definition. I suggest
> the destination Description (in particular the example address) and netmask
> Comment to be adjusted.
> 
> Best,
> Georg