iputils bug fix update

Advisory:	RHBA-2009:1090-2
Type:	Bug Fix Advisory
Severity:	N/A
Issued on:	2009-06-10
Last updated on:	2009-09-02
Affected Products:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)

Details

An updated iputils package that fixes a bug is now available.

The iputils package contains basic utilities for monitoring a network,
including ping.

This updated iputils package fixes the following bug:

* it is the rdisc utility which is called at boot time to populate the
network routing tables with default routes. This bug caused rdisc to fail
during initialization when more than one IP address was assigned to a
single interface. This has been solved so that when rdisc encounters two or
more IP addresses assigned to the same interface, it continues working as
expected. (BZ#470498)

All users of iputils are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which
resolves this issue.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Updated packages

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)

SRPMS:
iputils-20020927-46.el5.src.rpm	`MD5: 75e8ea496e4d39f7bc256f0241afe8c3`

IA-32:
iputils-20020927-46.el5.i386.rpm	`MD5: 1d8562cfbd446c46c548c9c8ed7d2287`

IA-64:
iputils-20020927-46.el5.ia64.rpm	`MD5: 1bf880cda1e680dd38675cfc017dd876`

PPC:
iputils-20020927-46.el5.ppc.rpm	`MD5: 5139d6a35238c28c265c8476732bcb69`

s390x:
iputils-20020927-46.el5.s390x.rpm	`MD5: 7c5f59b6ff47cffa71606ddbc1aa1430`

x86_64:
iputils-20020927-46.el5.x86_64.rpm	`MD5: 7752dd37597ed53b572eb3f84c809238`

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)

SRPMS:
iputils-20020927-46.el5.src.rpm	`MD5: 75e8ea496e4d39f7bc256f0241afe8c3`

IA-32:
iputils-20020927-46.el5.i386.rpm	`MD5: 1d8562cfbd446c46c548c9c8ed7d2287`

x86_64:
iputils-20020927-46.el5.x86_64.rpm	`MD5: 7752dd37597ed53b572eb3f84c809238`

(The unlinked packages above are only available from the Red Hat Network)

Bugs fixed (see bugzilla for more information)

470498 - rdisc error message with two IP addresses on one dev

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