The physical network interface is configured even when the vlan interface only is defined in kickstart

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Issue

  • The 802.1q tagged vlan network interface can be configured inside the kickstart file in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4. Refer Solution 25133
  • To configure the vlan network interface only, it's configured in kickstart file. And the network kickstart command for the physical network interface is not included.
  • For example, to configure the vlan interface i.e. eth0.123, the following network command is defined in the kickstart file. And, the network command for eth0 is not defined.
network --bootproto=static --device=eth0 --ip=192.168.0.100 --netmask=255.255.255.0 --gateway=192.168.0.254 --nameserver=192.168.0.1 --hostname=test.example.com --onboot=yes --noipv6 --vlanid=123 --activate
  • But, eth0 was configured unexpectedly. It got the network information from DHCP, default gateway was changed, and it failed since it could not download any rpms from the installation repository.
  • Also, /root/anaconda-ks.cfg doesn't include the correct vlan information after installation.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.4 specific

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