Unable to open rtnetlink socket

Martin Mares mj at ucw.cz
Sun Nov 25 11:32:23 CET 2001


Hi!

> 	I'm trying to use bird as a BGP peer, but although I could compile/install 
> it I couldnt run. I got the " Unable to open rtnetlink socket" error and 
> can't go on. I looked for errors on bird.conf, but it seems to be ok. 
> 	I couldnt find a FAQ so I'm asking for your help. What's wrong?

Do you have support for Netlink and Routing messages compiled in your
kernel?

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