[strongSwan] syslog Error "00[LIB] opening AF_ALG socket failed: Address family not supported by protocol"

Martin Willi martin at strongswan.org
Fri Sep 27 08:17:15 CEST 2013


Hi,

> "00[LIB] opening AF_ALG socket failed: Address family not supported by protocol"
> 
> Is this error something to be concerned about and how to eliminate it?

It seems that your kernel does not support the AF_ALG crypto API. On
such a kernel, it makes no sense to enable the af-alg plugin, but
instead use other/default crypto modules. Try to ./configure strongSwan
without --enable-af-alg.

Regards
Martin





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