On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > CONFIG_NETLINK=y > > CONFIG_RTNETLINK=y > > CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV=y > [...] > > CONFIG_IPV6=m > > CONFIG_IPV6_EUI64=y > > CONFIG_IPV6_NO_PB=y > I just wanted to call your attention to a possible catch. > Someone wrote in another thread that insmod ipv6.o may fail if RTNETLINK is > compiled in. The work around is to compile ipv6 into the kernel, as opposed > as a module.
Are you referring to my message, or someone else's? Here's where I got the idea that it may not have been the best of ideas to build the IPv6 support as a module: In a message date 1 Sep 2000, William F. Maton wrote in response to Dariush Pietrzak: > On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Dariush Pietrzak wrote: > > Hmm, > > Do I need to recompile kernel on my machine to use ipv6? > Yup. > > debian comes with ipv6 as module, maybe that's not enough? > Compile it into kernel, not as a module. Then try IPv6 again. After I read that, in the archived messages from the debian-ipv6 mailing list, I just assumed that there was something that caused the module to not work. This is what I get when I run "modprobe ipv6" after turning "netlink_dev" on in the networking options and rebooting: Using /lib/modules/2.2.17/ipv6/ipv6.o /lib/modules/2.2.17/ipv6/ipv6.o: unresolved symbol rtnetlink_links /lib/modules/2.2.17/ipv6/ipv6.o: unresolved symbol __rta_fill /lib/modules/2.2.17/ipv6/ipv6.o: unresolved symbol rtnl Now, a difference between my configuration and Mr. Gunthorpe's is that I'm set to load netlink_dev as a module. However, it doesn't matter if I load netlink_dev or not, I still get the unresolved symbols. I am now attempting to build netlink_dev into the kernel to see if that changes anything. No, it doesn't. In fact, it appears as if netlink_dev isn't even used by ip. It turns out the difficulty that I had been having with ipv6 being built as a module is entirely due to the fact that I wasn't rebuilding the kernels properly. -- Jonathan Guthrie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Brokersys +281-580-3358 http://www.brokersys.com/ 12703 Veterans Memorial #106, Houston, TX 77014, USA
