tons of console messages about interfaces

hspindel

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I have two computers running PVE. Both of them display a constant stream of console messages about networking interfaces:
entered blocking state
entered disabled state
entered forwarding state
left allmulticast mode
left promiscuous mode
possibly a couple others

These messages are associated with multiple interfaces: vmbr0, fwbr301i0, tap301i0, tap302i0, tap303i0, fwpr301p0 and maybe more that have scrolled off my screen.

In searching this forum, I found that these messages could result from running watchyourlan or pialert. I am running neither. The second PVE computer is just a backup and has no active VMs or LXCs, yet that computer displays all these messages too.

None of these messages appear to interfere with functionality of PVE in any way. It would just be nice to make them stop.

pveversion reports pve-manage/9.0.9/long string of digits (running kernel 6.14.11-2-pve). These messages have been present for a while. I updated everything today to the latest.

/etc/network/interfaces:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

iface eno1np0 inet manual

auto vmbr0
iface vmbr0 inet static
address <local IP>
gateway <local gateway>
bridge-ports eno1np0
bridge-stop off
bridge-fd 0

iface eno2np1 inet manual

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I don't know why the last iface line is there - I didn't set it up, and the interface is inactive.

Suggestions?
 
They are informational, each time a guest is shutdown/started.
Here, I disable "dmesg" displaying on console with crontab :
@reboot echo "1" > /proc/sys/kernel/printk
That can't the explanation be since no guests are being shutdown or started - three guests are just running constantly.

I don't think I want to disable all dmesg notifications.