[Xorp-users] Xorp - interface not plugged in problems...

[Pavlin Radoslavov]

> 	I've just built a new five interface
> Xorp box based on the CVS code I downloaded a few days ago.
> 
> The OS is a new clean install of Fedora core 4, patched
> with yum to be up to date etc.
> 
> I have configured five interfaces and I have configured
> the appropriate bits, IGMP, PIM-SM etc for it to act as a multicast router.
> 
> When I tried to start rtrmgr, it refuses to finish
> to start and exits with messages
> if any one of the interfaces
> on the box is not plugged in to a live network
> port at the time I start it.
> 
> Is this behaviour intended??

No, this is a bug. Unfortunately, fixing it properly is not going to
be trivial, so the fix will be postponed until after the 1.2
release. I just created a bugzilla entry about it so you can add
yourself to the CC list and track its status:

http://www.xorp.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=560

Pavlin

> Surely one would want it to bring up the interfaces
> that were plugged in at the time and then bring up the extra
> interface later when it too got plugged in.  Completely
> dying just because one interface is not plugged in
> seems a bit wrong.
> 
> Have I missed some option to tell it to carry on regardless perhaps??
> 
> If I make sure that the config only mentions interfaces
> which are plugged in to live switch ports then all starts fine.