Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 39744
Log level 0 logs excessively
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:33:09 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) Description of problem: I've insmod'd cipcb with cipe_debug=0 and the logging is *still* excessive. The logging needs to be a bit more intelligent. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. modprobe cipcb cipe_debug=0 2. start up a cipe connection 3. use it a while 4. grep cip /var/log/messages 5. grep cip /var/log/messages | wc -l 6. cat /var/log/messages | wc -l 7. note the percentage Actual Results: 360/471 considering that 357 of those lines were "... cerberus ciped-cb[nnnn]: keepalive timeout", this is a bit much Expected Results: Don't log timeouts when the number of timeouts allowed is -1 This alone would go a long way, but a lot of the logging is unnecessary cipe_debug should default to zero--most people don't need to know about every packet sent and recieved. Additional info:
My error... if I insmod cipcb cipe_debug=0, it'll have no debug output. Problem is that this isn't default. Putting options cipcb cipe_debug=0 in /etc/modules.conf fixes it, but this should be done by the cipe package (or the source should be patched to make it default.)
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I've moved on to Fedora Core long ago. I no longer have a need for cipe and would probably set up IPSEC in its place anyway, so I don't mind if you close this bug as DEFERRED/WONTFIX/CANTFIX or whatever is appropriate. Thanks for the followup, even if it's been sitting in your hopper for 5 years. :-)
Hmm, I don't think we're going to be changing this at this point. Given that the package is gone in current releases, closing as won't-fix.