https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=711420 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=711420#c0 Summary: Enabling ipv6 causes excessive non-critical syslog entries by dhclient Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.4 Version: Final Platform: i586 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.4 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Network AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: junkDawgie@yahoo.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 the default install of 11.4 has ipv6 enabled by network services, this causes a flood of entries in /var/log/messages by the dhclient similar to: Aug 8 00:47:03 blkdragon dhclient: XMT: Solicit on eth0, interval 109980ms. Aug 8 00:48:53 blkdragon dhclient: XMT: Solicit on eth0, interval 111500ms. Aug 8 00:50:44 blkdragon dhclient: XMT: Solicit on eth0, interval 116880ms. Aug 8 00:52:41 blkdragon dhclient: XMT: Solicit on eth0, interval 115160ms. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.enable ipv6 in the Network Settings module of Yast2 2.reboot 3.non-critical entries appear in /var/log/messages every two min by dhclient. Actual Results: disable ipv6 and all entries stop, dhclient continues to operate using ipv4 Expected Results: non-critical events should not be logged when using ipv6. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.