From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bobo Subject: What is the difference between modprobe and insmod? Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 15:11:7 +0800 Sender: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org Message-ID: <20021220070647.BA0B01C959464@sm181.163.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Errors-To: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org, netfilter@lists.netfilter.org Cc: bobowd@sohu.com, bobowd@sohu.com While writing IPtables scripts,there are two command: modprobe and insmod. In some example,some use : modprobe ip_tables,but others use: insmod ip_tables. Why? Is there difference between them? Thanks