two system eth, chooses one w/o a gateway, makes up gateway

[Chuck Anderson <cra WPI EDU>]

I have two system connections from ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-eth1.  The 
first one is DHCP to the main Internet/LAN, and the second is 
statically configured and goes to a private LAN that has no gateway to 
the Internet:

# Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
HWADDR=00:13:72:74:da:15
ONBOOT=yes
SEARCH="WPI.EDU"
#DNS1=130.215.32.18
#DNS2=2001:468:616:827::10
#DNS3=2001:468:616:820::10

# Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX
DEVICE=eth1
HWADDR=00:a0:cc:da:ed:04
BOOTPROTO=static
ONBOOT=yes
IPADDR=172.27.120.22
NETMASK=255.255.0.0
GATEWAY=

This worked fine in Fedora 9 and Fedora 10 I think until I upgraded 
from this:

Nov 19 23:14:47 Updated: 1:NetworkManager-glib-0.7.0-0.12.svn4296.fc10.i386
Nov 19 23:15:17 Updated: 1:NetworkManager-0.7.0-0.12.svn4296.fc10.i386
Nov 19 23:15:22 Updated: 1:NetworkManager-gnome-0.7.0-0.12.svn4296.fc10.i386

to this:

Nov 25 11:32:08 Updated: 1:NetworkManager-glib-0.7.0-0.12.svn4326.fc10.i386
Nov 25 11:32:10 Updated: 1:NetworkManager-0.7.0-0.12.svn4326.fc10.i386
Nov 25 11:32:12 Updated: 1:NetworkManager-gnome-0.7.0-0.12.svn4326.fc10.i386

Now NetworkManager activates eth1 as the primary interface, and makes 
up a default gatway.  As you can see, I specified a blank GATEWAY= in 
the ifcfg-eth1 file.  I also tried commenting this out as #GATEWAY= so 
no gateway was specified at all.

>netstat -nr
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt Iface
130.215.201.0   0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U         0 0          0 eth0
172.27.0.0      0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U         0 0          0 eth1
0.0.0.0         172.27.120.22   0.0.0.0         UG        0 0          0 eth1

I stopped NetworkManger and nm-system-settings and ran this manually:

>sudo /usr/sbin/nm-system-settings --debug --config /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf
** Message: Loaded plugin ifcfg-fedora: (c) 2007 - 2008 Red Hat, Inc.  
To report bugs please use the NetworkManager mailing list.
** Message:    ifcfg-fedora: parsing 
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 ... 
** Message:    ifcfg-fedora:     read connection 'System eth0'
** Message:    ifcfg-fedora: parsing 
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lo ... 
** Message:    ifcfg-fedora:     error: Ignoring loopback device 
config.
** Message:    ifcfg-fedora: parsing 
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 ... 
** Message:    ifcfg-fedora:     read connection 'System eth1'

Is this a known bug, or should I report this in RH bugzilla?  How can 
I smack this around so my Internet works again?  Right now I've been 
just doing this as a workaround:

sudo ip route del default
sudo route add default gw 130.215.201.1

Thanks.