Bug 617565

Summary: Update of iputils starts rdisc, breaking network connectivity
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel>
Component: iputilsAssignee: Jiri Skala <jskala>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
Severity: urgent Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 4.8CC: aglotov, azelinka, ddumas, fnadge, jskala, jturner, mkhusid, ohudlick, ovasik, pm-eus, tao
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: Patch, ZStream
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Hardware: i386   
OS: Linux   
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Updating the iputils utilities set used to cause the rdisc (network router discovery daemon) to restart, which in some cases could break the network connectivity. With this update, the rdisc daemon is only restarted if it was running before the update was initiated.
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Last Closed: 2010-08-31 15:42:12 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 519124    
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Description RHEL Program Management 2010-07-23 12:53:17 UTC
This bug has been copied from bug #519124 and has been proposed
to be backported to 4.8 z-stream (EUS).

Comment 4 Florian Nadge 2010-07-23 17:11:04 UTC
Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.

New Contents:
Updating the iputils utilities set used to cause the rdisc (network router discovery daemon) to restart, which in some cases could break the network connectivity. With this update, the rdisc daemon is only restarted if it was running before the update was initiated.

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2010-08-31 15:42:12 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2010-0663.html