On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 05:03:01PM -0400, David Zoll wrote: > I'm running a Debian 2.2 system with the iproute package installed. I > first tried with the included kernel, but it wouldn't work, so I rolled > my own (version 2.2.17) to see if that would let me use the command. I > think I've turned everything required on: Did the included version give the exact same error? This is very weird. Can you verify with 'uname -a' that you are running the kernel you think you are running? Attached is the output of 'strace /sbin/ip link list', which you can verify with yours to see what is happening differently. Regards, bert hubert execve("/sbin/ip", ["/sbin/ip", "link", "list"], [/* 30 vars */]) = 0 brk(0) = 0x805dce4 open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 4 fstat(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=19370, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 19370, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 4, 0) = 0x40014000 close(4) = 0 open("/lib/libresolv.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 4 fstat(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=46576, ...}) = 0 read(4, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0 \'\0\000"..., 4096) = 4096 old_mmap(NULL, 59420, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 4, 0) = 0x40019000 mprotect(0x40024000, 14364, PROT_NONE) = 0 old_mmap(0x40024000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 4, 0xa000) = 0x40024000 old_mmap(0x40026000, 6172, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40026000 close(4) = 0 open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 4 fstat(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=888596, ...}) = 0 read(4, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\244\213"..., 4096) = 4096 old_mmap(NULL, 902972, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 4, 0) = 0x40028000 mprotect(0x400fd000, 30524, PROT_NONE) = 0 old_mmap(0x400fd000, 16384, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 4, 0xd4000) = 0x400fd000 old_mmap(0x40101000, 14140, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40101000 close(4) = 0 munmap(0x40014000, 19370) = 0 personality(PER_LINUX) = 0 getpid() = 32233 socket(PF_NETLINK, SOCK_RAW, 0) = 4 bind(4, {sin_family=AF_NETLINK, {sa_family=16, sa_data="\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\205\234\0@"}, 12) = 0 getsockname(4, {sin_family=AF_NETLINK, {sa_family=16, sa_data="\0\0\351}\0\0\0\0\0\0\205\234\0@"}, [12]) = 0 time(NULL) = 972594780 sendto(4, "\24\0\0\0\22\0\1\3]\236\3709\0\0\0\0\21\0\0\0", 20, 0, {sin_family=AF_NETLINK, {sa_family=16, sa_data="\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\24\0\0\0"}, 12) = 20 recvmsg(4, {msg_name(12)={sin_family=AF_NETLINK, {sa_family=16, sa_data="\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\264\0\0\0"}, msg_iov(1)=[{"\264\0\0\0\20\0\2\0]\236\3709\351}\0\0\0\0\4\3\1\0\0\0"..., 8192}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 368 brk(0) = 0x805dce4 brk(0x805ddb4) = 0x805ddb4 brk(0x805e000) = 0x805e000 recvmsg(4, {msg_name(12)={sin_family=AF_NETLINK, {sa_family=16, sa_data="&\301\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\24\0\0\0"}, msg_iov(1)=[{"\24\0\0\0\3\0\2\0]\236\3709\351}\0\0\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0I\0"..., 8192}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 20 fstat(1, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(3, 1), ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40014000 ioctl(1, TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0 socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 5 ioctl(5, 0x8942, 0xbfffe9ac) = 0 close(5) = 0 write(1, "1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP> mtu 16192 q"..., 46) = 46 write(1, " link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00"..., 58) = 58 socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 5 ioctl(5, 0x8942, 0xbfffe9ac) = 0 close(5) = 0 write(1, "2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP"..., 69) = 69 write(1, " link/ether 00:00:e8:58:b6:31"..., 55) = 55 munmap(0x40014000, 4096) = 0 _exit(0) = ? -- PowerDNS Versatile DNS Services Trilab The Technology People 'SYN! .. SYN|ACK! .. ACK!' - the mating call of the internet