Re: Question about how to load ipchains with RH-7.1.

[Michael Schwendt <mschwendt yahoo com>]

On 2001-06-01, Steven W. Orr wrote:

>I just upgraded to the new 2.4.5 kernel and I built it with ipchains so I
>could continue using my pmfirewall. After the boot, the firewall had
>failed to start because the ipchains module wasn't loaded.
>
>1. How can I make the ipchains module load on demand?
>2. If I can't cause it to load on demand, where should I do the load so
>that it happens before the start of pmfirewall?

Did you built it as module?

If so, /etc/init.d/ipchains should take care of including it:

if [ "$KERNELMAJ" -eq 2 -a "$KERNELMIN" -eq 4 ]; then
    if [ ! -f /proc/net/ip_fwchains ]; then
        modprobe ipchains >/dev/null 2>&1 || exit 0
    fi
fi