[LARTC] Getting "ip" command to work

[David Zoll dzoll@nyscul.org]

<PRE>I am looking to route packets through a specific address on the other
side of a couple of layers of IP Masquerading.  My understanding is I
need to use iproute for this (or at least that's the best way to get it
to work).  The trouble is, I can't get the program to do anything. 
Whenever I run a basic command such as &quot;ip link list&quot; I get &quot;Cannot send
dump request: Connection refused&quot;.  Networking is functional, and every
other networking command works as expected, including the standard
&quot;route&quot; command.

I'm running a Debian 2.2 system with the iproute package installed.  I
first tried with the included kernel, but it wouldn't work, so I rolled
my own (version 2.2.17) to see if that would let me use the command.  I
think I've turned everything required on:

Here's the network entries from the .config file for my current kernel:
[snip]
#
# Networking options
#
CONFIG_PACKET=y
CONFIG_NETLINK=y
CONFIG_RTNETLINK=y
CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV=y
CONFIG_FIREWALL=y
CONFIG_FILTER=y
CONFIG_UNIX=y
CONFIG_INET=y
# CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST is not set
CONFIG_IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER=y
CONFIG_RTNETLINK=y
CONFIG_NETLINK=y
CONFIG_IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES=y
# CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH is not set
# CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_TOS is not set
CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_VERBOSE=y
CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_LARGE_TABLES=y
CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_NAT=y
# CONFIG_IP_PNP is not set
CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL=y
CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL_NETLINK=y
CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV=y
CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_FWMARK=y
CONFIG_IP_TRANSPARENT_PROXY=y
CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE=y
CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_ICMP=y
CONFIG_IP_ROUTER=y
CONFIG_NET_IPIP=m
CONFIG_NET_IPGRE=m
CONFIG_IP_ALIAS=y
# CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES is not set
# CONFIG_INET_RARP is not set
CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y
# CONFIG_IPX is not set
# CONFIG_ATALK is not set
[snip]

Can anyone help me figure out what I am missing?  Thank you very much.

-David Zoll


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