On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 1:13 AM, Tom H <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 12:05 AM, Todd And Margo Chester > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 07/15/2011 08:14 PM, Katherine Lim wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Todd And Margo Chester >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On 07/15/2011 07:31 PM, William Scott wrote: >>>> >>>> On 16 July 2011 11:50, Todd And Margo Chester<[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi All, >>>>> >>>>> Not having a good time researching this in Google, unless >>>>> I want to do it in Ubuntu. >>>>> >>>>> I am trying to make the following command permanent: >>>>> modprobe ip_nat_ftp >>>> >>>> Have a look in /etc/sysconfig/iptables-config >>>> >>> I should have said I am running SL6 x64. >>> >>> It is there. But, running /etc/rc.d/init.d/iptables throws an >>> error on ip_nat_ftp if I do not previously load ip_nat_ftp >>> with modprobe. >>> >>> What I am after is to load ip_nat_ftp at boot time with >>> modprobe.d. >>> >>> A tape and gum approach would be to load ip_nat_ftp >>> in /etc/rc.d/init.d/iptables before it did anything with >>> /etc/sysconfig/iptables-config, but I really would like >>> to learn the right way to do it in modprobe.d. >> >> Hmm. Maybe I am going at this wrong. In Slack12, they >> use a /etc/rc.d/rc.modules file and just put the module to >> load into it. > > From a colleague working on our RHEL 6 deployment (similar to F14/F15): > > root # vi /etc/sysconfig/modules/ip_nat_ftp.modules > #!/bin/sh > exec /sbin/modprobe ip_nat_ftp > root # chmod +x /etc/sysconfig/modules/ip_nat_ftp.modules > > Perhaps you should also start using the new name, nf_nat_ftp (although > its alias, ip_nat_ftp, the previous name, still works).
Although iptables modules should be loaded, as others have been pointing out, through "/etc/sysconfig/iptables-config".
