Re: [mpls-linux-general] MPLS: unable to find a protocol driver(2048)

[Tom K. <t.k...@gm...>]

Hello all,

Please ignore my last email, I solved the problem myself. The problem  
was that I forgot to load the mpls module into memory:

sudo /sbin/modprobe mpls4

My apologies for the interruption.

Tom



On Apr 17, 2009, at 1:03 PM, Tom Kleiberg wrote:

> Hello all/James,
>
> Sorry for the interruption. I have a problem running MPLS with  
> iptables. When create a rule with iptables and I want to send  
> packets according this rule, I get an error. So first I set up an  
> LSP and use the nhlfe key in the iptables rule. In this case the key  
> is 0x2. Then I set the following rule:
>
>
> sudo /sbin/iptables -t mangle -A POSTROUTING -s 10.0.0.6 -d 10.0.0.1  
> -p udp --source-port 4000 --destination-port 4000 -j mpls --nhlfe 0x2
>
> When I send packets with these source/destination addresses/port,  
> the following message appears in dmesg:
>
> [user@node09 2.6.26.6-49.fc8.mpls.1.962]$ dmesg
> ...
> MPLS: version 1.962
> MPLS: protocol driver interface - <jl...@mi...>
> ...
> ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
> MPLS: unable to find a protocol driver(2048)
>
>
> I am using the pre-built kernel and rpms from the sourceforge  
> website, version 1.962, on a F8 distro.
> Can you provide with more information on this error message?
>
> Many thanks!!
>
> Tom
>