#56 netflow: error connecting UDP socket -101

[Anonymous]

I want to use ipt_netflow with my ubuntu server 10.04.3 LTS,
i've added string
/sbin/modprobe ipt_NETFLOW destination=10.7.19.237:9996
in rc.local, but there is something wrong:
in dmesg i see following messages:
[ 7.070840] ipt_netflow version 1.7.1 (16128 buckets)
[ 7.071180] netflow: registered: /proc/net/stat/ipt_netflow
[ 7.071266] netflow: registered: sysctl net.netflow
[ 7.071312] netflow: error connecting UDP socket -101
[ 7.073574] netflow: remove destination 10.7.19.237:9996 ( (null))
[ 7.073597] ipt_netflow loaded.

in a few seconds i see
[ 7.780403] r8169 0000:01:00.0: eth0: unable to apply firmware patch
[ 7.782240] r8169 0000:01:00.0: eth0: link down
[ 7.782258] r8169 0000:01:00.0: eth0: link down
[ 7.782732] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 7.801313] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): vlan100: link is not ready
[ 7.983556] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): vlan195: link is not ready
[ 8.141814] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): vlan173: link is not ready
[ 8.171537] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): vlan174: link is not ready
[ 9.647723] r8169 0000:01:00.0: eth0: link up
[ 9.648170] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready

i thing ipt_netflow want not loads because network device is not ready. isn't?

anyway, there is solution of my problem?

[ABC]

Set destination or load module AFTER network interfaces is up.

[Victor]

module of ethernet adapter was loaded before. i think it initializes device in background and it takes a few seconds.

now i solved this problem executing "sleep 5" before loading ipt_netflow module, but i think that's not so good way

[ABC]

Load module somewhere AFTER setting up network (ip address, routes). Imagine you set up ip address for eth0 but ethernet adapter still initializes in background? Oh not so good!

[ABC]

This is fixed. On connection error module will try to reconnect until success, so now it CAN be loaded BEFORE interfaces.