scapy_server: add try-catch on determining self IP

Change-Id: Ibda7ba66a08385cfd8d73717e4c0fa257aa38436
Signed-off-by: Yaroslav Brustinov <ybrustin@cisco.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/automation/trex_control_plane/stl/services/scapy_server/scapy_zmq_server.py b/scripts/automation/trex_control_plane/stl/services/scapy_server/scapy_zmq_server.py
index 6489b36a..0788229a 100755
--- a/scripts/automation/trex_control_plane/stl/services/scapy_server/scapy_zmq_server.py
+++ b/scripts/automation/trex_control_plane/stl/services/scapy_server/scapy_zmq_server.py
@@ -103,7 +103,10 @@ class Scapy_server():
         self.context = zmq.Context()

         self.socket = self.context.socket(zmq.REP)

         self.socket.bind("tcp://*:"+str(port))

-        self.IP_address = socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname())

+        try:

+            self.IP_address = socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname())

+        except:

+            self.IP_address = '0.0.0.0'

         self.logger = logging.getLogger('scapy_logger')

         self.logger.setLevel(logging.INFO)

         console_h = logging.StreamHandler(sys.__stdout__)