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

["Steven W. Orr" <steveo world std com>]

Many thanks Micheal :-)

It never occurred to me that ipchains would be regarded as an init time
service.

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On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Michael Schwendt wrote:

=>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