On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 13:15:57 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Stephen,
>
> The module will only autoload if /etc/modules.conf is setup for it. Checking
> redhat 7.3, redhat 9.0, WhiteBox EL3, Suse 8.0 and Suse 9.0 systems, none have
> anything to cause bridge.o to alias to br0. Those are the only systems I have to
> look at. I don't know what other distros like debian or mandrake do for bridge.o.
> They might have it in the modules.conf file... Dunno.
>
Wrong! It gets done by:
static int sock_ioctl(struct inode *inode, struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
unsigned long arg)
{
...
switch(cmd) {
...
case SIOCGIFBR:
case SIOCSIFBR:
case SIOCBRADDBR:
case SIOCBRDELBR:
err = -ENOPKG;
if (!br_ioctl_hook)
request_module("bridge");
> So, Bert, you'll need to add something like this to /etc/modules.conf:
>
> alias br0 bridge
Don't do that. It will autoload the bridge, but br0 will not be created automatically!
I.e. if the configuration script does:
ifconfig br0 up
Then it will load the bridge module, but since the bridge hasn't been created you will
get "no such device" error.
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