Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Apr 2006 11:41:40 -0400 | From | Maurice Volaski <> | Subject | Re: iptables is complaining with bogus unknown error 18446744073709551615 |
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>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). --
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