I originally put my report in bug 387050, but the assignee punted. Here's the cut and paste:

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When I configure my LAN, which does not access the internet, I get an error
message for each online repository that can't be reached. Actually, I get 2
error messages per repo:

Download failed:
Download (curl) error for
'http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.0/repo/oss/content':
Error code: Connection failed
Error message: Couldn't resolve host 'download.opensuse.org'

and

Cannot access installation media
(Medium 1)
Check whether the server is accessible.

Do I really deserve 8 error messages for changing my ipaddress? I have
configured correctly, but network settings is bombarding me with errors,
because it really wants to access the repos right now!

This should fail silently. Give errors when the repos are required for the user
initiated action. I shouldn't need internet access to reconfigure my NIC.
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The yast2 version is yast2-network 2.16.48-3.1
The NetworkManager version is 0.7.0.r3685-7.2

This does not happen if I select ifup to manage the connection in global options, only when NetworkManager is managing the connection. All it appears to download when a wan connection is available is the metadata. Whatever it's trying to do, it's an optional step, and I'd like to get past it without all the errors.