> ___________________________________________________________________________   
>    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

I am sure that there are other aliases, not related to networking. Is
there an easy way to find what they relate to?

Claude

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