Am 14.04.2011 09:19, schrieb Jan Engelhardt: > On Thursday 2011-04-14 09:13, Maciej Åenczykowski wrote: > >> Note that: -M '' is -M followed by a space and two single quotes. >> >> Furthermore, note that with -M '', you will want to modprobe ip_tables >> or modprobe ip6_tables manually first at system startup (or build them >> into the kernel), since those modules don't autoload (hence why >> iptables tries to load them). >> >> I wonder if there's an easy way iptables userspace could detect >> whether these modules are already loaded (or compiled into the >> kernel), and not even try to load them, if so... > > Not with the socket interface, but it's on the plate for netlink-based > Xtables. We do have the /proc/net/ip_tables_{names,matches,targets} files which should be usable for this. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html