Sorry, s/attack/attach/ On 00:33 Wed 19 Nov , Thomas Smith wrote: > 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. > > > Well, it's currently a pretty basic setup--no packet filtering, no > traffic shaping. It does have two interfaces, though--one unroutable, > the other live. (It's stricly a test server to plan our migration from > Red Hat to Gentoo.) > > I'm going to investigate the previous post regarding CONFIG_FILTER=y. > I'm not quite sure what the poster meant by "It's used for attack filter > to any socket, used by the program." or how this option will affect > other aspects of the server. If you or anyone can elaborate on this > option please do so. > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list >
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