Bug 655310 - Send IPv6 address of network interfaces to rhnParent
Summary: Send IPv6 address of network interfaces to rhnParent
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Spacewalk
Classification: Community
Component: Clients
Version: 1.3
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Miroslav Suchý
QA Contact: Red Hat Satellite QA List
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Depends On: 569793
Blocks: spaceIPv6 569790 space13
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-11-20 12:30 UTC by Miroslav Suchý
Modified: 2011-04-21 11:28 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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
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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.
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