Re: [gentoo-server] Autoloading firewall modules

[Chris White]

A. Khattri wrote:
> If I build iptables features (i.e. conn tracking, etc) as modules, they
> are automagically loaded when I use the -m option to the iptables command.
>
> This is great however, Ive noticed that a few modules do not automatically
> load when needed, e.g. ip_conntrack_ftp
>
> Am I doing something wrong? Or will I always need to remember to add an
> entry to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 ?

For things like iptables modules, I generally do something like:

find /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/ -type f -iname "*.ko" >>
/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6

and edit out what I don't need/want.

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Chris White