Ahh, so that's how exactly iptables decided to modprobe or not. Thanks for the explanation Jan :) Rgds, On 2011-03-25, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Friday 2011-03-25 11:31, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> >>> When I run iptables, is it supposed to 'insmod' ip_tables, etc >>> to the modules list? ÂEven if it's compiled into the kernel? >>> >> >>I don't think so. IMO if the modules are compiled into the kernel, >>iptables will not load them. >> >>But I'm not a developer, though. I *could* be wrong. > > If the module is compiled in, the functionality is already available, > thus trying to use the functionality does not fail and iptables > won't attempt to modprobe. > -- -- Pandu E Poluan - IT Optimizer My website: http://pandu.poluan.info/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
