bond0: IPv6 duplicate address detected! appears several times in the messages

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Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.5

Issue

In /var/log/messages the following messages appear several times

Aug 25 04:05:35 servername kernel: bond0: IPv6 duplicate address detected!
Aug 25 04:05:40 servername kernel: bond0: IPv6 duplicate address detected!
Aug 25 04:05:45 servername kernel: bond0: IPv6 duplicate address detected!
Aug 25 04:05:51 servername kernel: bond0: IPv6 duplicate address detected!

Resolution

This matches the behaviour of this bug : Bug 516985 - When bonding is used and IPV6 is enabled the message of 'kernel: bond0: duplicate address detected!' is output

The following errata addresses this issue : Important: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 kernel security and bug fix update

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