Re: [Linux-decnet-user] Having troubles....

[Steven W. <st...@gw...>]

Hi,

> 
> Hi
> 
> In the past ive had decent working great.....that might have been on
> mandrake 9....anyway, im now using mandrake 9.1 and 9.2 adn i get the same
> erro on both.
> 
> The kernel version of 9.2 is 2.4.21, 9.1 is 2.4.20
> 
> I compiled 2.23.2 from source
> 
> Ive set up the scripts and everything looks ok.  I copied setether.sh into
> /usr/local/sbin and use that from /etc/init.d/decnet to set the macaddress
> of the card, the node address and default_route using the /proc filesystem.
> 
> Ive can see the other machine on the network (vms 5) in
> /proc/net/decnet_neigh.
>
Assuming that your ethernet card was correctly showing in /proc/net/decnet_dev
then:
 
> But when i dnping it i get
> Loopback error
> write: transport endpont is not connected
>
is rather unusual since it normally means a routing error has prevented
a connection being set up.

If you can't solve the problem any other way, do an strace of a broken
binary (something simple like dnping is best) and a tcpdump if any
traffic is exchanged. Also the output of an ifconfig eth0 would be
good too... this is the give away if Mandrake have done the same thing
as Red Hat,

Steve.