On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Greg wrote:
> I've tried posting to the Cipe list about this, but it seems I'm
> the only one listening there anymore. I'm not sure where to go next, but
> I'm in a pickle and need to get Cipe working properly on 2.2.1 and RedHat
> 5.2.
>
> Cipe compiles and installs fine. The module loads without complaint, but
> when I attempt to run ciped, I get the following in my logs.
>
> Feb 16 15:59:00 nooni ciped[330]: opendev: alloc: Operation not permitted
>
> This error message only occurs in one place in the source code, which
> leads me to believe that this is something external to cipe. Perhaps not
> related to Cipe itself, but the kernel and it's allocation of devices and
> such.
>
> if (ioctl_alloc(f, DEVNAME "0", &d)<0)
> err("opendev: alloc");
>
> When this fails on me, I end up with;
>
> Feb 16 16:22:20 nooni ciped[296]: CIPE daemon vers 1.2.0 (c) Olaf Titz
> Feb 16 16:22:20 nooni ciped[296]: opendev: alloc: Operation not permitted
>
> My understanding is that if this returns failure, the message will be
> generated to the "err" routine.
>
> "ioctl_alloc" is defined in the cipe source code in file "ioctl.h";
>
> extern int ioctl_alloc(int fd, char *ifname, struct siocsifcipall *sio);
>
> Anyone care to comment?
>
>
>
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