I have seen this on Linux machines when the system is not routed (ie have a default route)
http://www.msg.ucsf.edu/local/ganglia/ganglia_docs/install.html Check out point 1 in 2.1.1 regarding adding a static route to the multicast network. Looks like what we are seeing here! Hope this helps, Ray On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 16:02 +0100, Davide Pastorino wrote: > Greetings everyone, > > I compiled succesfully ganglia 3.0.2 on an IBM p650 with AIX 5.1, but > when I start gmond (with -d1) all I get is the following error: > > Error creating multicast server mcast_join=239.2.11.74 port=8649 > mcast_if=NULL family='inet4'. Exiting. > > The same binary runs ok on an IBM p630 with the same os level, the > gmond.conf file is in /etc and it's the same on both servers. > > Can anyone tell me what's happening, or what I'm missing? > > Best regards, > Davide Pastorino
