[Openswan Users] Openswan fails to start.

[Andy Gay]

On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 09:03 +0800, Jim Barber wrote:

> 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

Is this a Debian distributed kernel, or did you make it yourself?

I wonder if whatever part of the kernel that provides the netlink
interface is missing. The code that's complaining is in
pluto/kernel_netlink.c, it's calling socket() and bind() with various
XFRM options, so I suspect that the kernel interface is in XFRM_USER in
this case, or maybe NET_KEY.

Can you check that you have all the networking options stuff like
XFRM_USER either compiled in, or in modules that are loaded already when
Openswan starts?

- Andy