Spammy syslog messages in -current for ARM64 in virtualization

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From: Jordan Hubbard <jordan.hubbard_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2026 18:17:37 UTC

Running FreeBSD/ARM -current in VMWare I’m seeing a lot of this:

Nov  5 02:23:35 barmy kernel: RA with a lower CurHopLimit sent from fe80:1::7624
:9fff:fe1b:b12 on em0 (current = 255, received = 64). Ignored.

It is repeated a LOT and is very spammy.  Is this particular message valuable to someone, and even if so, does it need to be emitted so often?  It’s the #1 source of console messages for me in this configuration and it’s causing other more important messages to scroll out of the console buffer.

- Jordan