All things related to multicast

[Christian MacNevin <>]

Hi Stig,

Somebody on the wg-multicast list mentioned that I had to pass the -4  
flag to get it to work. I'm not used to thinking in ip6 terms,
so the [-46] bit of the command confused me i have to admit :S

Anyhow, it works now, but I'm still getting the following as it runs:

[rtv@lab26
 ~]$ ssmpingd -4
socket: Address family not supported by protocol
errno=97

This is the latest rpm i could find for RHEL4 something. I guess this  
is unfortunately only 0.81, so it might be beyond the scope you're
bothered with. Actually if you have any idea if anyone's planning to  
package 0.91, that'd be good to know, as mcfirst looks handy.

Thanks for the help, and obviously the application!

Christian



On Nov 11, 2008, at 1:05 AM, Stig Venaas wrote:

Christian MacNevin wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> So I'm trying to set up ssmping between a couple of hosts to test  
> linux
> kernel compatibility, but when I attempt to
> run ssmpingd on either end, I'm getting an error message to the effect
> of 'address family not supported by the protocol."
>
> Hoping somebody's seen this one before? It's a RHEL4 release.

Haven't seen this before, but I'll try to help you out. Sounds like
something IPv6 related... I would need to know more details though.

o Which version of ssmping?
 And from source or RPM or...

o Description of the problem
 Is this only at startup or when you receive a query? Does it exit or
 is the process still running?

o Output
 It would be good to see exactly what the output is

I guess it could also be useful to know kernel version and whether you
have IPv6 configured (output of ifconfig -a might be of help).

Stig