Could not get interface address for socket!

karlilinux · 01-11-2006, 10:59 AM

Hello!

I'm trying to run X-plane (flightsim) over the network. Xplane uses UDP for multiple screens etc.
I'm running Kubuntu 5.1 Breezy on all machines and web applications and so on are working.

The problem is that when starting Xplane a window apears and says :

"Could not get interface address for socket!"

and in the network configuration of Xplane the displayd IP-address of the local machine is 0.0.0.0 instead of 127.0.0.1 or the assigned IP
without that, networking does not work :-(

Does anybody knows where I have to look to fix that?

please tell me what information you need to help me, as I am more or less a newbie in networking under linux

thanx

ifconfig and netstat outputs:

>ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:xx:xx:xx:54
inet addr:128.xxx.xx.63 Bcast:128.xxx.xx.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: xxxx::xxx:xxxx:xxxx:6154/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:15384 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:9963 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:7372521 (7.0 MiB) TX bytes:1474051 (1.4 MiB)
Base address:0x8000 Memory:c0220000-c0240000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:9034 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:9034 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:948570 (926.3 KiB) TX bytes:948570 (926.3 KiB)

>netstat -taulpn
Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:32769 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 6934/hpiod
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:631 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 7817/cupsd
udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:68 0.0.0.0:* 10080/dhclient3
udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:49000 0.0.0.0:* 10099/X-Plane-i586

flashingcurser · 01-11-2006, 01:51 PM

Seems I've had to add a route statement with 0.0.0.0 to fix a problem.

You might try google/linux "0.0.0.0 route" and see what comes up

dan

karlilinux · 01-12-2006, 04:11 AM

thanx dan

but unfortunatly I can't find any problems in my routing table:

Code:

>route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
128.???.??.0    0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
0.0.0.0         128.???.??.1    0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0

Did I miss something?