On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 11:41:40AM -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: > >On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 09:12:38PM -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: > >> Automatic kernel module loading! That is an option and it's off by > >> default. When it's off, attempts to load kernel modules are ignored > >> internally, and that's why iptables was failing. It tried to load > >> xt_tcpudp, but was ignored by the kernel. > >What do you mean by "it's an option" and "is off by default". I would > >claim that any major linux distribution that I've seen in the last ten > >years has support for module auto loading (enabled by default). > > Distribution vendors are free to change it to whatever they want, I guess, but it's OFF by > default in the official kernel (.config). apparently architecture-specific: grep KMOD arch/i386/defconfig CONFIG_KMOD=y grep KMOD arch/x86_64/defconfig CONFIG_KMOD is not set don't know why x86_64 turns it off by default. the help message says 'if unsure, say Y' (which makes sense!) -- - Harald Welte <[email protected]> http://netfilter.org/ ============================================================================ "Fragmentation is like classful addressing -- an interesting early architectural error that shows how much experimentation was going on while IP was being designed." -- Paul Vixie
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