Bug 655310

Summary:	Send IPv6 address of network interfaces to rhnParent
Product:	[Community] Spacewalk	Reporter:	Miroslav Suchý <msuchy>
Component:	Clients	Assignee:	Miroslav Suchý <msuchy>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Red Hat Satellite QA List <satqe-list>
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	1.3	CC:	jpazdziora, psklenar
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	rhn-client-tools-1.3.1-1	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Clone Of:	569790	Environment:
Last Closed:	2011-04-21 11:28:29 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	569793
Bug Blocks:	487666, 569790, 653453

Description Miroslav Suchý 2010-11-20 12:30:23 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #569790 +++

Description of problem:
rhn-client tools report HW info to rhnParent. But we currently send only IPv4 address and not IPv6 address.
We use python-ethtool to grab the information. We can either request IPv6 support in python-ethtool or do some workaround.

--- Additional comment from msuchy on 2010-03-02 08:12:43 EST ---

We should also change in hardware.py in function change gethostbyname(gethostname()) to socket.getaddrinfo(gethostname()), but it does not contain simple value and we should somehow pick up the right value.

Comment 1 Miroslav Suchý 2010-11-20 13:44:03 UTC

We now send IPv6 addresses to server (commit c295d2f4387f76b3d7186a39a1cc04d9c7eccd09).
Those data are not utilizes by Spacewalk Server yet.

I replaced gethostbyname() by getaddrinfo() (commit 6ca6477f39b18473dbd8dc2abeb99c8b23f30458) so we can easily switch to using IPv6 as default ip addr or get info from IPv6 stack.