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Paul Crittenden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> In the Ip-Masquerade-HOWTO it says to go to www.pi.se/blox/modules and
> download a loadable modules file, preferrably 2.1.121. Well, at that
> site the only file available is 2.0.0. Is a newer version available
> somewhere and if so where?
The tools are the "kernel modules" tools. You should read the man pages
for the various tools, "insmod", "rmmod", "lsmod", "modprobe", and
"depmod". Of these, the tools you will probably use most often are
"modprobe" and "lsmod".
I have never updated my modutils from the stock versions that came with
my (old Slackware) system. I have never needed to. You probably don't
need to, either. I'd say put this lower on your priority list.
> The HOWTO and the Using Caldera OPEN Linux book talk about modules,
> such as ip_masq_ftp, ip_masq_irc, ip_masq_quake, ip-masq_raudio and
> ip_masq_vdolive. Are they supposed to be in the file I downloaded
> from the blox site? I unzipped and untarred that file and I don't see
> them.
When you build a Linux kernel, much of the kernel ends up in the
"vmlinux" image that is loaded at boot time, but other parts of the
kernel can be loaded dynamically, on demand. These parts are called
"modules," and they live under /lib/modules.
The easiest way to load these modules is "modprobe module_name", such as
"modprobe ip_masq_ftp". It should find the module and install it into
the kernel. You can see it there by using the "lsmod" command.
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