Stephan Müller <frukto...@gmail.com> [15-05-10 11:36]:
> Am 10.05.2015 um 11:12 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I need to load some extra modules "manually" when
> > my Linux box boots to get access to an embedded 
> > system. These modules need to be added to 
> > /etc/conf.d/modules for various reasons.
> > 
> > The modules are:
> > 
> > ipt_MASQUERADE          1037  2 
> > nf_nat_masquerade_ipv4  1785  1 ipt_MASQUERADE
> > iptable_nat             1578  1 
> > nf_nat_ipv4             4811  1 iptable_nat
> > nf_nat                 11442  2 nf_nat_ipv4,nf_nat_masquerade_ipv4
> > nf_conntrack_ipv4      11964  1 
> > nf_defrag_ipv4          1395  1 nf_conntrack_ipv4
> > nf_conntrack           61998  4 
> > nf_nat,nf_nat_ipv4,nf_nat_masquerade_ipv4,nf_conntrack_ipv4
> > 
> > 
> > How can I distinguish those modules from this list, which need 
> > to be listed in /etc/conf.d/modules from those, which get pulled in by
> > these?
> > 
> > Best regards
> > mcc
> > 
> 
> First it does no harm to load modules directly which would be pulled in as 
> dependency anyways.
> From the the above lsmod you can leave out those, which have a nonempty used 
> by column. That would be
> 
>    ipt_MASQUERADE
>    iptable_nat
>    nf_conntrack_ipv4
> 
> To get more complete information on dependencies you can look at
> 
>     $ modinfo ipt_MASQUERADE
> 
> etc. However to get full information you have to look at
> 
>     $ cat /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.dep
> 
> This gives a complete list of dependencies.
> 
> 
>  ~frukto
> 

Hi Stephan,

thanks for the informations! :)

Best regards,
Meino



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