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What does "modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-3" mean?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Kraemer)
Thu Mar 28 06:18:12 1996
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu (Linux Network Channel)
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 12:08:16 +0100 (MET)
From: Martin Kraemer <Martin.Kraemer@mch.sni.de>
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Hello,
Yes, I know, never trust a "bleeding edge" kernel. What I wondered about
was the semantics of the auto-loaded module names. Of course, I understand
what a "char-major-23" is, but what is a "net-pf-4"?
These messages occurred lately (in the 1.3.7x's) when I call the ifconfig
program. I don't have an attached ethernet card, but I use dummy0 (for my
local host IP when PPP is down) and otherwise PPP. I use kerneld and it
doesn't have any problems auto-loading ppp, dummy0 or anything else.
So what is the kernel looking for, and where can I look up the meaning of
"net-pf-xx"?
This is a short excerpt of the situation; no PPP is loaded, I can telnet
locally without getting any error messages, but every call to ifconfig
outputs three of them. Why?
Thanks for any enlightening ;-)
Martin
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Script started on Thu Mar 28 08:35:18 1996
kwaamreo> ifconfig
Mar 28 08:36:10 kwaamreo modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-4
Mar 28 08:36:11 kwaamreo modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-3
Mar 28 08:36:12 kwaamreo modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-5
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1
RX packets:33 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
TX packets:33 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
dummy0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-F4-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
inet addr:192.168.123.1 Bcast:192.168.123.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
kwaamreo> netstat -i
Kernel Interface table
Iface MTU Met RX-OK RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVR TX-OK TX-ERR TX-DRP TX-OVR Flags
lo 3584 0 33 0 0 0 33 0 0 0 BLRU
dummy 1500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 BNRU
kwaamreo> netstat -r
Kernel routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
localhost * 255.255.255.255 UH 3584 0 0 lo
kwaamreo.no.dom * 255.255.255.255 UH 1500 0 0 dummy0
kwaamreo> telnet kwaamreo
Trying 192.168.123.1...
Connected to kwaamreo.no.domain.
Escape character is '^]'.
Linux 1.3.79 (kwaamreo.no.domain) (ttyp2)
kwaamreo login:
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