Re: Little question about modules...

[David Weinehall]

On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 03:20:52AM +0100, Nicolas Noble wrote:
> 
> Just a question:
> 
> Why do I have used by -1 for the module ipv6 onto my system?
> 
> extract of the /proc/modules:
> 
> ip6table_filter         1988   0 (unused)
> ip6t_mark                688   0 (unused)
> ip6t_limit              1016   0 (unused)
> ip6_tables             13044   3 [ip6table_filter ip6t_mark ip6t_limit]
> ipv6                  117992  -1

To make sure ipv6 can't get unloaded. If I remember correctly, the
ipv6 code will oops nicely if unloaded.

/David Weinehall
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