Subject: Re: [Openswan Users] DPD Problem - message from kernel malformed: unknown address family

From: "David S. Miller" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:08:49 -0700

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:09:29 +1000
Herbert Xu <[email-masked]> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 08:02:44AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > 
> > Looks like nobody has tested shunt routes for a while.
> > 
> > It's a kernel bug.  We're not setting the family field in the selector.
> > This patch fixes it.
> 
> Dave, please scratch that patch.  The family is already being set
> elsewhere.  Until we have real cross-family transforms this won't
> be needed.

So why is the unknown address error occuring for this case?
Is it just a case we don't need to worry about at this time?