lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions

[Knute Johnson]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Knute Johnson wrote:
> 
>> I'm getting a recurring kernel error about every 30 seconds to a minute.
>>   This is from logwatch but the kernel and messages logs are similar.
>>
>> 1 Time(s): [ 9503.788362] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
>>   1 Time(s): [ 9503.942683] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
>>   1 Time(s): [ 9803.349930] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
>>   1 Time(s): [ 9803.505668] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
>>   1998 Time(s): lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
> 
> I've got no ideas how to prevent the messages, but I wouldn't worry about it 
> (except that that's on the order of 2000 extra lines of logging every day) - 
> it's the loopback (127.0.0.1) interface and really can't use and doesn't 
> need "Privacy Extensions".

Any idea where Privacy Extensions are configured?

Thanks,

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Knute Johnson
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