Linux-Hams archive - February 1998: Re: Net-Pf-4/5

Re: Net-Pf-4/5

Richard Adams (nocbhl@serrahs.com)
Mon, 23 Feb 1998 08:03:40 +0000 (GMT)

According to Alex Holden: While burning my CPU.
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> I'd like to know if you find a solution, as my system does the same. I
> suspect it's a bug with Redhat somewhere. It did it on both my systems
> when I upgraded to 2.0.33. Does yours also print out a load (about 4 for
> each network interface) of blank lines when booting up and shutting down,
> around the point where it says 'Disabling IPV4 Packet Forwarding'? I've
> spent ages trying to figure out what causes them, and have come to the
> conclusion that it's something to do with it not being able to find the
> Net-Pf modules (Pf-> Packet forwarding?).
No its not Pf = Packet Forwarding, no its not a bug in Redhat, its a nifty
thing from Kerneld, its explaned in ./linux/Documentaion/modules.txt,
basicly to get rid of the messages edit /etc/conf.modules and add the
following.

alias net-pf-4 off
alias net-pf-5 off

4 i think, note i say think, is IPX and 5 is appeltalk.
Sorry to be so vage but i am on my old H/D at the minute and dont have new
information.

> The next thing to try is to see if I can get hold of a newer version of
> the modules, as my second system came up with masses of 'unresolved
> symbols' errors whenever it probed for module dependencies, when I enabled
> the 'set version information on all symbols for modules' kernel option.
> 73s, Alex.

Nope, just define
CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y
with make config.

Thats also documented in ./linux/Documentaion/Configure.help

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> On Sun, 22 Feb 1998 knxss@taburet.ru wrote:

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Regards Richard 73.