[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > 2. Why would the kerneld begin to attempt to load these modules?
> >
> > I imagine network tools enumerating available protocols.
>
> probably depmod -a in the init scripts somewhere. i'm pretty sure that's
> what was doing it to me.
Until recently, `ifconfig' attempted to create a socket for every
protocol which it supported. This would result in the kernel
attempting to load the modules for all of the protocols which it knew
about.
Recent versions (i.e. net-tools-1.50) check for the existence of
/proc/net/ipx (appletalk, ax25 etc) before attempting to create the
socket. However, it still tries to create a socket with protocol 19
(PF_ECONET?) for some reason.
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Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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