Re: [Linux-decnet-user] DECnet and ifconfig

[Patrick C. <pa...@ty...>]

On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 01:27:04PM -0400, Stanley F. Quayle wrote:
> After starting DECnet, doing an "ifconfig" (/sbin/ifconfig) returns:
> 
> : error fetching interface information: Device not found
> 
> Doing an "ifconfig eth0" returns the normal information.
> 
> I've done the following:
> 
> - Installed on RH 7.2, RH 7.3, and RH 9 via RPM's.
> - Built DECnet from the latest sources
> - Installed a separate interface (eth1) and configured DECnet to
>   use that interface
> 
> This wouldn't seem to be such a problem, but the server I'm using is 
> running other services -- and a "service named restart" causes named 
> to only run against lo, not eth0.  Other services behave similarly.
> 
> This also happens with SuSE, kernel 2.4.21-99-default.

This sounds like the symptom of a kernel built incorrectly with 
DECNET_SIOCGIFCONF support. If that's the case, all I can suggest is to get the
kernel source and build the kernel without this option.

Patrick