Re: ipchains autoload

Harald Welte (laforge@gnumonks.org)
Tue, 19 Jun 2001 02:31:33 -0300

On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 07:17:22AM +0200, Nico Schottelius wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I don't really know howto specify that kmod
> should autoload the ipchains module, when I am
> using ipchains.
>
> Anyone any idea howto tell kmod to load it then ?

there is no way to do that.

The problem is, that ipfwadm / ipchains and iptables use the same
setsockopt() / getsockopt() based communication between kernel and
userspace - so the kernel can never know which one of the three you want
to load.

> Nico

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