On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > socket: Invalid argument
> >
> > and it exit, I was looking in the file sockets.ccp
> > in the following line:
> >
> > / * Create the receive socket * /
> > if ((rx_socket = socket(AF_PACKET, SOCKET_PACKET, htons(proto))) == -1)
> >
> > if I change the AF_PACKET for the AF_INET, the program works in TX
> > via RF Link but non RX in the RF Link, in RedHat 6.1 as AF_PACKET yes
> > it works using the ax25 tools in RX
> >
> > My main Question is your patch works for the RedHat 5.2 ??
>
> AF_INET is for TCP/IP and not for AX.25 though. I think the problem
> is that you are not running aprsd as root -- it must be run as root
> to create the AF_PACKET socket if I recall correctly? (Just as
> "listen" must be run as root -- and listen is where I got the above
> code from originally.)
(AF_INET, SOCK_PACKET) was the old way of getting a packet capture socket
that worked with 2.0.x kernels. (AF_PACKET, SOCK_PACKET) only works on
2.1.x and newer.
Jose are you possibly running a 2.0.x kernel in the RH5.2 box?
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