Bringing interfaces up at boot and SElinux (?)

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon May 16 16:51:36 UTC 2005


Kyrre Ness Sjobak (kyrre at solution-forge.net) said: 
> But: It seems like it then tries to ping something - but an error
> message is printed to rhgb: "could not create ICMP socket - denied" (i
> am writing from memory here...) - could this be related to SELinux? Can
> anybody confirm? My knowledge of SELinux is very small.

The error is probably from SELinux; there's a ping in /sbin/dhclient-script
when it times out.

Bill




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