Re: Adhoc: IPV4 setting 'link-local'

[Simon Schampijer <simon schampijer de>]

Sorry guys for the late reply.

On 08/11/2010 06:30 AM, i grok comcast net wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 02:27:14PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> > Huh; the key line here is
> >
> > Aug 10 20:19:00 laptop avahi-autoipd.orig(wlan0)[3289]: socket() failed:
> > Operation not permitted
> >
> > Do you have the avahi-autoipd user in /etc/passwd and its group
> > in /etc/group?  Should be something like this:
> >
> > avahi-autoipd:x:498:498:avahi-autoipd:/var/lib/avahi-autoipd:/sbin/nologin
>
> Since Simon appears to still be running Fedora 11, this is almost
> certainly an SELinux denial. This was fixed in later SELinux policy
> updates for F13 (and presumably F12, but I don't run that anymore), but
> since F11 is EOL, I doubt it got updated.

Right, this error was on F11 indeed. And yes, when setting SElinux to 
permissive I could create the Ad-hoc network fine. As OLPC (the big F11 
deployment) does disable SElinux that would explain why I did not see it 
there.

And to underline your assumption that this has been fixed in non-EOL :) 
versions I tested it on a latest soas snapshot (upcoming F14). As 
SELinux is set to permissive there I set to enforcing to make sure to 
not see the issue there anymore and yes, I can set up a link-local 
connection fine there.

Thanks a lot for helping clearing this question! I guess no action is 
needed here, please let me know if you think otherwise.

Regards,
   Simon