[Openswan Users] Openswan fails to start.

[Paul Wouters]

On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Jim Barber wrote:

> Oct  3 10:43:08 firewall pluto[8431]: Starting Pluto (Openswan Version 2.4.6 X.509-1.5.4 LDAP_V3 PLUTO_SENDS_VENDORID PLUTO_USES_KEYRR; Vendor ID OElLO]RdWNRD)

> Oct  3 10:43:09 firewall pluto[8431]: Using Linux 2.6 IPsec interface code on 2.6.18
> Oct  3 10:43:09 firewall pluto[8431]: FATAL ERROR: Failed to bind bcast socket in init_netlink(). Errno 2: No such file or directory

Are you sure you are actually not doing that?

> Oct  3 10:43:08 firewall ipsec_setup: KLIPS ipsec0 on net XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX/255.255.255.248 broadcast XXX.XXX.XXX.ZZZ

We cannot tell because you edited the output that mattered.

> I'm not sure why it's failing to bind a broadcast socket...

It believes it is binding to a broadcast IP, and doesn't want to.

One other wild guess is that you have SElinux enabled, and the error is
just very unclear. If that's the case, please get back to me so I can
fix the error message.

Paul
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