On Wednesday 19 November 2003 16:02, Selentek 24331-03 wrote:
> On 16:07 Wed 19 Nov     , Jason Stubbs wrote:
> > On Wednesday 19 November 2003 14:24, Thomas Smith wrote:
> > > I've had Gentoo setup and running on a test server for about a month
> > > now and didn't notice any of these errors until I configured Nagios--it
> > > immediately started reporting WARNINGs regarding this error.. I've
> > > googled for this problem and every body seems to agree that it's an
> > > issue with the Kernel but no one has offered a solution. The error I
> > > get is:
> > >
> > > WARNING: failed to install socket filter
> > >
> > > : Protocol not available
> > >
> > > This error occurs when PINGing /any/ host. It doesn't happen with every
> > > ping--that is, it occurs after every few responses. It doesn't seem to
> > > be causing any other functionality problems.
> >
> > I've set up a little Gentoo server at work that I believe experiences
> > exactly the same thing. I'll confirm tomorrow, but for the time being
> > I'll list some details of how it's configured network-wise.
> >
> > * one interface with multiple IPs
> > * IP fowarding enabled
> > * TCP packets with destination of port 80 redirected to localhost
> > * connection tracking for everything the kernel supports
> > * traffic shaping for both incoming and outgoing traffic
> >
> > That's all that I can remember at the moment. If you could supply the
> > same thing, we can use the similarities to hopefully track the source of
> > the problem down.
>
> Rebuild kernel with:
>
> CONFIG_FILTER=y
>
> It's used for attack filter to any socket, used by the program.

What is the name of that kernel option? I'm running 2.6 and don't have that 
defined in my .config file and cannot find it in any of the Kconfig files.

Jason

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