Problem starting A.L.F.R.E.D on batman-adv?

Problem starting A.L.F.R.E.D on batman-adv?

[doug.fajardo]

I cant seem to get A.L.F.R.E.D. to start:
doug@dougwork:~/sdshome/alfred$ sudo alfred -b bat0
Can't start server: interface missing

batman-adv module is from the Unix kernel distribution (Alfred was added thru the apt package manager, identified as version  2022.0-1  ( I also tried downloading and compiling; no warnings or errors compiling, I saw identical symptoms).
The batman-adv network seems to be working properly. It correctly sees two other nodes.
Can anyone point out what I am missing ?

Thanks!
*** Doug  
OS is Ubuntu  bookworm, with latest patches as of today (1/28/2023)
doug@dougwork: uname -a
Linux dougwork 6.5.0-15-generic #15~22.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Jan 12 18:54:30 UTC 2 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

doug@dougwork: sudo batctl n
[B.A.T.M.A.N. adv 2023.1, MainIF/MAC: enp6s0/5c:62:8b:ea:33:b8 (bat0/6e:d4:b2:77:d1:85 BATMAN_IV)]
IF             Neighbor              last-seen
       enp6s0     d8:3a:dd:4d:35:c4    0.192s
       enp6s0     dc:a6:32:0b:49:35    0.392s

doug@dougwork: ifconfig  enp6s0
enp6s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        ether 5c:62:8b:ea:33:b8  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 85660  bytes 5364556 (5.3 MB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 4109  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 75996  bytes 104561707 (104.5 MB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

Re: Problem starting A.L.F.R.E.D on batman-adv?

[Linus Lüssing]

On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 10:29:00PM -0000, doug.fajardo@gmail.com wrote:
> I cant seem to get A.L.F.R.E.D. to start:
> doug@dougwork:~/sdshome/alfred$ sudo alfred -b bat0
> Can't start server: interface missing

I think it's complaining because the "-i" parameter is missing.
Try using "alfread -i bat0" instead.

Regards, Linus

Re: Problem starting A.L.F.R.E.D on batman-adv?

[Doug Fajardo]

On 1/28/24 22:02, Linus Lüssing wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 10:29:00PM -0000, doug.fajardo@gmail.com wrote:
>> I cant seem to get A.L.F.R.E.D. to start:
>> doug@dougwork:~/sdshome/alfred$ sudo alfred -b bat0
>> Can't start server: interface missing
> I think it's complaining because the "-i" parameter is missing.
> Try using "alfread -i bat0" instead.
>
> Regards, Linus

Linus - Thanks for your quick response. I tried this,  but it didn't 
work... Response was:

    doug@dougwork: sudo alfred -i bat0 -m

    can't bind: Cannot assign requested address

    Failed to open interfaces.

*** Doug

Re: Problem starting A.L.F.R.E.D on batman-adv?

[Doug]

On 1/29/24 15:03, Doug Fajardo wrote:
>
> On 1/28/24 22:02, Linus Lüssing wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 10:29:00PM -0000, doug.fajardo@gmail.com wrote:
>>> I cant seem to get A.L.F.R.E.D. to start:
>>> doug@dougwork:~/sdshome/alfred$ sudo alfred -b bat0
>>> Can't start server: interface missing
>> I think it's complaining because the "-i" parameter is missing.
>> Try using "alfread -i bat0" instead.
>>
>> Regards, Linus
>
> Linus - Thanks for your quick response. I tried this,  but it didn't 
> work... Response was:
>
>    doug@dougwork: sudo alfred -i bat0 -m
>
>    can't bind: Cannot assign requested address
>
>    Failed to open interfaces.
>
> *** Doug
>
Uh, never mind - I just realized I didn't assign an IP address to bat0 
!  your solution worked.


Thanks!!!

*** Doug F.