[Openswan Users] problem to start xl2tpd -- init_network: Unable to bind socket: Address already in use. Terminating.

[Paul Wouters]

On Tue, 28 Dec 2010, Erick Chinchilla Berrocal wrote:

> Another comments
> #nmap 11.11.11.11 -sU
>
> Starting Nmap 4.62 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2010-12-28 10:19 CST
> Interesting ports on 11.11.11.11:
> Not shown: 1481 closed ports
> PORT     STATE         SERVICE
> 500/udp  open          isakmp
> 514/udp  open|filtered syslog
> 1701/udp open|filtered L2TP
> 4500/udp open|filtered sae-urn
>
> Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 1.267 secon

nmapping your own machines is not very useful.

As I said and lsof showed, there is already an xl2tpd running. You cannot run 2

Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Wouters [mailto:paul at xelerance.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 27, 2010 5:38 PM
> To: Erick Chinchilla Berrocal
> Cc: users at openswan.org
> Subject: Re: [Openswan Users] problem to start xl2tpd -- init_network:
> Unable to bind socket: Address already in use. Terminating.
>
> On Mon, 27 Dec 2010, Erick Chinchilla Berrocal wrote:
>
>> when i try to start my xl2tpd services its return this error
>>
>> #  xl2tpd -D
>>
>> xl2tpd[2972]: init_network: Unable to bind socket: Address already in use.
> Terminating.
>
> There is already one running? At least something is listening on port 1701
> already.
>
> check with: lsof -i udp:1701
>
> Paul
>