Fedora 17 Update: NetworkManager-0.9.3.997-0.7.fc17

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-4188
2012-03-20 05:54:05
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Name        : NetworkManager
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 0.9.3.997
Release     : 0.7.fc17
URL         : http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/
Summary     : Network connection manager and user applications
Description :
NetworkManager is a system network service that manages your network devices
and connections, attempting to keep active network connectivity when available.
It manages ethernet, WiFi, mobile broadband (WWAN), and PPPoE devices, and
provides VPN integration with a variety of different VPN services.

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Update Information:

This update enables out-of-the box connectivity to IPv6-only networks, disables WiFi Ad-Hoc WPA networks due to kernel bugs (they are created as 'open', not encrypted as expected), and fixes a few InfinBand issues.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #538499 - IPv6-only network attachment fails, due to IPv4 addressing being considered mandatory
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=538499
  [ 2 ] Bug #798697 - The default IPv6 mode is "Ignore" for implicit/ifcfg-less connection profiles (e.g. wired ethernet)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=798697
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update NetworkManager' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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