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SubjectRe: iptables is complaining with bogus unknown error 18446744073709551615
>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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Maurice Volaski, mvolaski@aecom.yu.edu
Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
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