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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.
Comment 2RHEL Program Management
2010-03-02 13:10:53 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux major release. Product Management has requested further
review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux Major release. This request is not yet committed for
inclusion.
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 4Jan Pazdziora (Red Hat)
2010-05-13 13:03:28 UTC
Taking.
Comment 5Jan Pazdziora (Red Hat)
2010-05-13 13:05:22 UTC
I do not consider this to be RHEL 6.0 material. We do not have working code, we do not even know if it would break the server side, if the server would be able to store the IPv6 data.
I'm going to move this to 6.1 instead of devel nacking this, so that we do not lose it from our radar.
Comment 8Jan Pazdziora (Red Hat)
2010-11-19 16:19:31 UTC
Fix from bug 655310 require:
Requires: python-ethtool >= 0.4
We have two option:
a) flip this to RHEL7 BZ. But there will be rebase to current version, which will support it anyway.
b) rebase python-ethtool in RHEL6. Which is unlikely since this is not customer driven BZ.
Closing as WONTFIX.
cherrypicked as:
* 68fd40a (HEAD, client-rhel-6) 569790 - for scope on rhel5 do s/global/universe/
* ed0e024 743259 - RHEL5 now has python-ethtool 0.6 - simplify code
* 41b50c7 on el5 do not send IPv6 addresses
* f9a8024 655310 - replace gethostbyname by getaddrinfo
* 8e898b5 655310 - send IPv6 addresses to server
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.
For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.
If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2012-0752.html