From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Soren Hansen <soren@ubuntu.com>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Automatically load modules in iptables-save
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:05:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49C24332.2020107@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090319125532.GC20472@ralph.linux2go.dk>
Soren Hansen wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 06:10:14PM +0100, Soren Hansen wrote:
>> Resubmitting as per
>> http://marc.info/?l=netfilter-devel&m=123722008913373&w=2
>>
>> If the iptables modules are not loaded when iptables-save is run,
>> iptables-save will fail, because it can't open the relevant files in
>> /proc. This patch makes iptables-save attempt to load the modules, and
>> then retries.
>
> Is this the correct list for this?
It is. The patch seems rather pointless though, if the module isn't
loaded, there's obviously nothing to save.
> If the iptables modules are not loaded when iptables-save is run,
> iptables-save will fail
What does "fail" mean in this context?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-19 13:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-16 17:10 Automatically load modules in iptables-save Soren Hansen
2009-03-19 12:55 ` Soren Hansen
2009-03-19 13:05 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2009-03-19 13:50 ` Soren Hansen
2009-03-19 13:55 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-03-19 13:58 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-19 14:29 ` Soren Hansen
2009-03-19 14:31 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-03-19 15:43 ` Soren Hansen
2009-03-19 16:02 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-03-19 17:00 ` Soren Hansen
2009-03-20 18:42 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-19 16:43 ` Soren Hansen
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2009-03-16 11:42 Soren Hansen
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