FC4: Unnecessary network 'noise'?

[William Hooper]

Antti J. Huhtala wrote:
> Sorry again. I ought to have said: "up2date complains about my
> 'subscription not being activated' because 'one of the three Red Hat
> registration steps were not completed'".

I would wager that this is rhn-applet complaining, not up2date.  The
rhn-applet is broken in FC4 because of lack of repomd support.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=160873

I bet if you close the rhn-applet your traffic goes away, too.

> I don't know which step, but there
> it is... I realise now Red Hat registration and Red Hat Network
> registration (if the latter _did_ exist) are two different things.

The point you are missing is that no form of registration is needed to get
updates.  The fact you are prompted to register when clicking the
rhn-applet is a bug.

-- 
William Hooper