[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#548908: network-manager overrides my default route with a non-working one

[Stefan Monnier]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.7.1-2
Severity: normal

My system is setup as follows:
- an ethernet interface configured via DHCP connects up to the internet.
  Udev is setup to name this interface `eth-down'.
  This interface is taken up/down by ifplugd.
- a USB plug to which I sometimes connect a device through an ethernet
  adapter.  Udev is setup to name this interface `eth-usb'.
  this interface is taken up/down via "allow-hotplug".

All the networking is setup via /etc/network/interfaces (shown below).
network-manager is installed and running (because of gnome) but has
never been touched (i.e. default config) and no user is running
nm-applet.

As long as I don't plug in my eth-usb device, all works fine.
As long as network-manager is not running, everything works fine.
But starting from the following routing state:

# route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
132.204.24.0    *               255.255.252.0   U     0      0        0 eth-down
default         sud-ouest.iro.u 0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth-down
# 

if network-manager is running and I plug my eth-usb device, I the device gets
configured correctly by ifupdown's hotplug support, but the default route
gets messed up:

# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
192.168.0.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     1      0        0 eth-usb
132.204.24.0    *               255.255.252.0   U     0      0        0 eth-down
default         192.168.0.200   0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth-usb
# 


        Stefan


##### /etc/network/interfaces #############################################
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
iface eth-down inet dhcp

allow-hotplug eth-usb
iface eth-usb inet static
        address 192.168.0.200
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        up iptables -A POSTROUTING -t nat -j MASQUERADE -s 192.168.0.0/24 &
        up echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward &
        up iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT &
        down iptables -D POSTROUTING -t nat -j MASQUERADE -s 192.168.0.0/24 &
###########################################################################


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                3.110             add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                   1.2.16-2          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  dhcp3-client           3.1.2p1-1         DHCP client
ii  hal                    0.5.13-3          Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  ifupdown               0.6.9             high level tools to configure netw
ii  libc6                  2.9-25            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.16-2          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.82-1            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11            1.4.4-4           LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.22.0-1          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnutls26            2.8.3-3           the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgpg-error0          1.6-1             library for common error values an
ii  libhal1                0.5.13-3          Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libnl1                 1.1-5             library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnm-glib0            0.7.1-2           network management framework (GLib
ii  libnm-util1            0.7.1-2           network management framework (shar
ii  libpolkit-dbus2        0.9-4             library for accessing PolicyKit vi
ii  libpolkit2             0.9-4             library for accessing PolicyKit
ii  libtasn1-3             2.3-1             Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libudev0               0.141-2           libudev shared library
ii  libuuid1               2.16.1-3          Universally Unique ID library
ii  lsb-base               3.2-23            Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  wpasupplicant          0.6.9-3           client support for WPA and WPA2 (I
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
pn  dnsmasq-base               <none>        (no description available)
ii  iptables                   1.4.4-2       administration tools for packet fi
ii  network-manager-gnome      0.7.1-1       network management framework (GNOM
ii  policykit                  0.9-4         framework for managing administrat
ii  ppp                        2.4.4rel-10.1 Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - da

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
pn  avahi-autoipd                 <none>     (no description available)

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