From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965160AbWD0PlV (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Apr 2006 11:41:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965157AbWD0PlV (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Apr 2006 11:41:21 -0400 Received: from mailgw.aecom.yu.edu ([129.98.1.16]:38059 "EHLO mailgw.aecom.yu.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965040AbWD0PlU (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Apr 2006 11:41:20 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20060427135119.GB5177@rama> References: <200604210738.k3L7cBGO010103@mailgw.aecom.yu.edu> <20060427135119.GB5177@rama> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 11:41:40 -0400 To: Harald Welte From: Maurice Volaski Subject: Re: iptables is complaining with bogus unknown error 18446744073709551615 Cc: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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). > Distribution vendors are free to change it to whatever they want, I guess, but it's OFF by default in the official kernel (.config). -- Maurice Volaski, mvolaski@aecom.yu.edu Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University