Hello all,
I'm an experienced user of diald and have recently moved to redhat linux
6.1. My problem is the ethertap device apears to be created but diald
appears to be unable to attach to the ethertap device, which is gone when I
check the devices via ifconfig. I am running a 2.2.13 (started as 2.2.12
recompiled with ethertap support as a module) kernel, diald 0.99.1 (0.99.2
attempted as a fix for this problem) and ppp 2.3.10 all compiled with
egcs-2.91.66 on a pentium II system. The following is the excerpt from my
log file when I attempt to start diald:
Nov 7 17:15:22 localhost diald[1790]: Using fifo /etc/diald/dialdisp.ctl
Nov 7 17:15:22 localhost diald[1790]: Proxy device established on interface
tap0
Nov 7 17:15:22 localhost diald[1790]: start tap0: SIOCSIFMETRIC: Operation
not supported
Nov 7 17:15:22 localhost diald[1790]: start tap0: RTNETLINK answers: File
exists
Nov 7 17:15:22 localhost diald[1790]: start tap0: RTNETLINK answers: File
exists
Nov 7 17:15:22 localhost modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-17
Nov 7 17:15:22 localhost modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-17
Nov 7 17:15:22 localhost diald[1790]: Could not get socket to do packet
monitoring: Socket type not supported
Nov 7 17:15:22 localhost diald[1790]: Diald is dieing with code 1
Nov 7 17:15:22 localhost diald[1790]: stop tap0: RTNETLINK answers: No such
process
The interesting part is my diald setup worked with the same version of diald
and the same kernel (2.2.12) before I reinstalled on a new
motherboard/processor. I recompiled the kernel upgrading to 2.2.13 and
changed the irq in the ethertap.c file from 5 to 9, since I needed 5 for
another device with this motherboard. I also created the /dev/tap[0123]
devices in accordance with the ethertap docs in the source tree.
I began by running diald-0.99.1, but this also failed to resolve my problem.
I think the reference to the "RTNETLINK answers" line is in route.c:146 of
the latest diald. I'm perplexed. I can't go back to my earlier machine
either, due to hardware problems with the old motherboard. There are also
changes in the new redhat packages that I want to have as well. Any help
would be appreciated. I'd really rather not step through things in the
debugger unless this is a new problem nobody has seen or taken care of
previously. Thanks in advance for any assistance.
David Picard
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