Kevin E. Hunt wrote:
> I get this error in /var/log/messages every time I try to start diald:
>
> Feb 26 01:35:59 Mowgli diald[627]: Nonzero exit status (1) on command
>'/sbin/ifconfig tap0 10.2.11.45 pointopoint 10.2.11.1 netmask 255.255.255.255 metric
>0 mtu 1500 up'
> Feb 26 01:35:59 Mowgli diald[627]: Could not get socket to do packet monitoring:
>Socket type not supported
> Feb 26 01:35:59 Mowgli diald[627]: Diald is dieing with code 1
>
> Can anyone shed some light on this? I know the first error is caused by
> ifconfig's METRIC argument, but I'm at a loss on the second error.
I'm wondering if this is related to SOCK_PACKET support. Does your
kernel have packet socket (CONFIG_PACKET) support? If it is built as a
module (af_packet.o), you need to have
alias net-pf-17 af_packet
in modules.conf.
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