Re: discovery fails with error

Erik Schoenfelder (schoenfr@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de)
Tue, 10 Oct 1995 13:28:44 +0100

Hi!

RF> I just compiles scotty 2.0.1 and tkined 1.3.4 on a HP/UX 9.??
RF> machine. It compiles fine and starts. But when I do a
RF> "discover network" on network 135.160.60 I get the following
RF> stack trace :

RF> sendto failed: Permission denied

RF> Does anyone know what this means and how to solve it?

Up to now, we don't know; appended is a Q/A of the same problem
running on a SGI:

"Nigel.Metheringham" <nigel@theplanet.co.uk> said:

Nigel> Secondly, having got this SGI beasty running IRIX 5.3 to
Nigel> compile things at last, I get a set of errors when using the
Nigel> IP Discover functions in tkined. The trace given is:-

Nigel> sendto failed: Permission denied

Juergen Schoenfelder <schoenw@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> answered:

Juergen> Thats strange. I have no idea what is wrong. However,
Juergen> we recently got an SGI box so I will check this out
Juergen> once we get the compiler for this machine. (In most
Juergen> cases it is very annoying to get UNIX machines without
Juergen> a C compiler but in this case we got so many games
Juergen> that we had other things to do. :-)

Juergen> As a work around, you can comment out the calls to
Juergen> discover_snmp in ip_discover.tcl. If you want to debug
Juergen> this problem, it would be most helpful to know the IP
Juergen> address which causes the problem. Just add a few puts
Juergen> into the discover_snmp proc and see where it stops
Juergen> working. Perhaps the SGI box is doing strange things
Juergen> if it receives ICMP port unreachable messages?

Erik