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
A typo, perhaps? If so, won't be for much longer:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6451
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Maurice Volaski, mvolaski@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
