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SNMPD has problems with xen net drivers.
Why?
Xen net emulates a blank MAC address (FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF)
Which in it’s turn generates a faulty IPv6 address which is duplicated amongst the interfaces.
SNMPD cannot handle these duplicated addresses an detects an IP conflict.

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