Kenneth Stephen wrote:
>
> My previous sending has obviously been chewed up by some malevolent server
> on the 'net. Hence the repost...
>
> There is no such thing as luck. 'Luck' is nothing but an absence of bad luck.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 21:09:59 -0600 (CST)
> From: Kenneth Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Whats with net-pf-5?
>
> Hi,
>
> I must be missing something obvious. Here is a boot script that is
> part of the Debian boot process :
>
> #! /bin/sh
> ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
> route add -net 127.0.0.0
> IPADDR=192.168.0.1
> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> NETWORK=192.168.0.0
> BROADCAST=192.168.0.255
> GATEWAY=192.168.0.1
> ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST}
> route add -net ${NETWORK}
> [ "${GATEWAY}" ] && route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1
>
> Right after the two 'ifconfig' statements, I get a message saying
> that modprobe was unable to find the module net-pf-5. This is after a
> fresh build of 2.0.36 (make config; make dep; make clean; make bzImage;
> make modules; make modules_install).
>
> Kerneld is configured to autoload. I looked at the source code,
> and here is where the error occurs : (from /usr/src/linux/net/socket.c)
>
> /*
> * Perform the socket system call. we locate the appropriate
> * family, then create a fresh socket.
> */
>
> static int find_protocol_family(int family)
> {
> register int i;
> for (i = 0; i < NPROTO; i++)
> {
> if (pops[i] == NULL)
> continue;
> if (pops[i]->family == family)
> return i;
> }
> return -1;
> }
>
> asmlinkage int sys_socket(int family, int type, int protocol)
> {
> int i, fd;
> struct socket *sock;
> struct proto_ops *ops;
>
> /* Locate the correct protocol family. */
> i = find_protocol_family(family);
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_KERNELD
> /* Attempt to load a protocol module if the find failed. */
> if (i < 0)
> {
> char module_name[30];
> sprintf(module_name,"net-pf-%d",family);
> request_module(module_name);
> i = find_protocol_family(family);
> }
> #endif
>
> Can anyone enlighten me?
>
> Kenneth
>
> There is no such thing as luck. 'Luck' is nothing but an absence of bad luck.
Text from /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Kerneld:
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Some network protocols can be loaded as modules as well. The kernel
asks kerneld for a protocol family (e.g. IPX) with a request for
"net-pf-X" where X is a number indicating what family is wanted. E.g.
net-pf-3 is AX.25, net-pf-4 is IPX and net-pf-5 is AppleTalk. (These
numbers are determined by the AF_AX25, AF_IPX etc. definitions in the
linux source file include/linux/socket.h). So to autoload the IPX
module, you would need an entr like this in /etc/conf.modules:
alias net-pf-4 ipx
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