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Sorry, I meant why do modprobe at all, not in place of insmod. The question is
more in the realm of whether modules load themselves when needed, even if not
manually loaded with modprobe, and what is the benefit of manually loading the
masquerading modules during boot-up.
bruno
Audie Pierre wrote:
> modprobe is comparable to insmod except that modprobe is more flexible. It
> has the ability to load a stack of modules by checking for dependencies. If
> one of the dependent modules failed everthing else from the stack is
> removed.
> You could as well do insmod instead of modprobe but insmod is usually used
> to load single modules that do not require dependencies.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bruno Melloni [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 3:26 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [Masq] Why modprobe?
> >
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> >
> > I am sure this is a really dumb question, but I'll ask anyway.
> >
> > Why do we call modprobe for the ip_masq_... modules in the rc.local
> > script?
> >
> > Is it for performance, i.e.: early loading, or for some other reason?
> > Masquerading seems to work even without the modprobe statements (at
> > least in RedHat 6.0).
> >
> > bruno
> >
> >
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> > of bruno.vcf]
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