Hi! > Jose Maria Lopez wrote: > [snip] > > there are things simply impossible. [snip snip] > > Becoming way off topic, anyhow... Well, actually, not really - from following a post that Jason provided me yesterday in response to my re-posted question, you can easily see how the modularity/patching issue is to some degree a factor in the behavior I was asking about. Here was Jason's post to me; notice the post he references: --------------------------------------------------- On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 19:33, James B. Hiller wrote: > Hi! > > No takers? Or have I put this in the wrong forum? If I have, please > let me know where to go with it. [snip] 2.6.9-rc1 seems pretty bleeding edge... the 2.6 series has kind of become a test branch as it is, but sheesh--that's really out there. do you have a "gotta have it" reason to run this kernel? if not--i'd say stick with the "release" version: 2.6.8.1... seems these kind of compilation issues would be par-for-the-course on an "rc" kernel. anyways...if you must--you should probably be following the netfilter-devel list (and linux-kernel for that matter)--check out the post from Harald Welte (with patch): http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=netfilter-devel&m=109346594923412&w=2 ----------------------------------------------------- If you follow that one backward and forward, you'll see other very related patch/modularity discussion, and how the issue most likely influences exactly what I asked about. And also note that it became a topic on both the netfilter-devel list and the linux-kernel list. So... I'd say, not OT that much, or even at all! BTW - from the info in that thread, I more or less got the answer I was trying to get: my config choices most likely should be expected to work; it's principally an issue with this particular release; and I should expect that it will get better. thx, jbh
