Bug 9724

Summary:	Protocol not available - CONFIG_PACKET, CONFIG_FILTER defined in kernel conf?
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Brock Organ <borgan>
Component:	dhcp	Assignee:	Erik Troan <ewt>
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Description Brock Organ 2000-02-23 18:57:21 UTC

dhcpd fails to start:

[root@test162 /etc]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/dhcpd start
Starting dhcpd: Internet Software Consortium DHCP Server 2.0
Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium.
All rights reserved.

Please contribute if you find this software useful.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html

socket: Protocol not available - make sure CONFIG_PACKET and CONFIG_FILTER
are defined in your kernel configuration!
exiting.
                                                           [FAILED]
[root@test162
/etc]#

Comment 1 Erik Troan 2000-02-23 20:56:59 UTC

You have rebuilt your kernel without the support dhcp needs to work as a
daemon.