Re: iptables is complaining with bogus unknown error 18446744073709551615

[Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>]

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).

There are many userspace programs that try to autoload modules, such as
device-mapper, ipsec, etc.  

If you disable module autoloading, it's your own responsibility to load
modules manually.

So the only thing that I really consider a bug is that bogus error
message of iptables.  This has been fixed in SVN, case closed.

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- Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>                 http://netfilter.org/
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