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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Max Kellermann <max@duempel.org>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: conntrackd won't start, "can't open multicast server!"
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 15:31:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <477F94BC.40804@netfilter.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080104081007.GA30807@swift.blarg.de>

Hi Max,

Max Kellermann wrote:
> I am currently working on the official conntrack-tools 0.9.5 Debian
> package; I have been maintaining the old "conntrack" program before.
> The daemon will not start (with examples/stats/conntrackd.conf):
> 
>  host:~# /usr/sbin/conntrackd -C /etc/conntrackd.conf 
>  Notice: StripNAT clause is obsolete. Please, remove it from conntrackd.conf
>  ERROR: conntrackd cannot start, please check the logfile for more info
>  host:~# tail /var/log/conntrackd.log 
>  [Fri Jan  4 09:01:25 2008] (pid=9353) --- starting in console mode ---
>  [Fri Jan  4 09:01:25 2008] (pid=9353) [FAIL] can't open multicast server!
>  [Fri Jan  4 09:01:25 2008] (pid=9353) [FAIL] initialization failed

You forgot the -S option to run it in statistics mode. I know that this
option is a bit confusing so I have applied a patch to obsolete it.
Thus, you won't need to pass -S to conntrackd anymore in the upcoming
0.9.6 release.

> Also, the example shipped in the 0.9.5 includes the obsolete
> "StripNAT" option.

This was removed from SVN. BTW, SVN currently contains a patch to enable
logging via file/syslog for the statistics mode. Still, this requires
evaluation in terms of performance (e.g. very busy firewalls) and some
kind of tool that digest the logging information.

-- 
"Los honestos son inadaptados sociales" -- Les Luthiers

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-05 14:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-04  8:10 conntrackd won't start, "can't open multicast server!" Max Kellermann
2008-01-05 14:31 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2008-01-05 17:29   ` Max Kellermann
2008-01-07 11:09     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2008-01-07 11:55       ` Max Kellermann
2008-01-09 23:06         ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2008-01-14  9:40           ` Max Kellermann
2008-01-14 15:41             ` Pablo Neira Ayuso

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