[Openswan Users]

[Paul Wouters]

On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Bgs wrote:

>
> When I try to start openswan on one of my machines, pluto fails to start with
> the following error message:
>
> Dec 16 16:43:21 bgs pluto[2536]: FATAL ERROR: Failed to bind bcast socket in
> init_netlink(). Errno 2: No such file or directory
>
> It's a 2.6 kernel (Using Linux 2.6 IPsec interface code on 2.6.14).
>
> Any ideas what's the prob with the broadcast?

Are you trying to bind to an invalid ip (eg the broadcast address of the network) ?

Paul