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8.139. mipv6-daemon
Updated mipv6-daemon packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The mipv6-daemon packages contain a mobile IPv6 service for clients, which allows them to relocate within an IPv6-enabled network yet remain reachable.
This update also fixes the following bug:
Note
The mipv6-daemon packages have been upgraded to upstream version 1.0, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#804124)
This update also fixes the following bug:
Bug Fix
- BZ#804124
- Previously, the mip6d daemon wrote debugging log messages to the stderr output stream, especially during process termination. However, due to a bug in the code, mip6d wrote random data into the netlink socket instead of stderr. These netlink messages were rejected by the kernel and caused SELinux warnings about invalid netlink messages. This update fixes this bug and the described situation no longer occurs.
The mipv6-daemon packages have been upgraded to upstream version 1.0, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#804124)
Users of mipv6-daemon are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs and add these enhancements.

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