Patching breaks default gateway being applied on Centos 5

[Gamogo]

For your reference:

http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4582
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=482826

The latest Shellshocker patch triggers this bug. In short, "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/network-functions" does not work under bash 4.x - which is applied as part of the Shellshocker patch. The result is network interfaces come up/start, but fail to apply their gateway information.

Fixes:

1.) Manually define a gateway on a nominated interface via "route add" after restarting the system or restarting network services - example:

service network restart
route add default gw n.n.n.n eth0

2.) Go to line 78 in "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/network-functions" and change:

. $CONFIG

to:

. ./$CONFIG

(Note the spaces between the '.')

Note: On Redhat systems, the bug documentation cited above infers this change is required on line 80, not 78.