On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 12:02 -0700, Eric "Shubes" wrote:

> I have a RH9 box that's a server for a small office. They needed ftp to 
> publish their web pages, and ftp wasn't working through the 
> iptables/natted firewall. I googled and found out that it needs 
> ip_conntrack_ftp and ip_nat_ftp modules. I modprobe'd them, and it works 
> fine.
> 
> My question is simple: do those modules persist in the kernel after a 
> reboot? I read the man pages for modprobe and modules.conf, and it's not 
> very clear to me (how that all works). I'm guessing that they do. I know 
> I could test it by rebooting, but it's a production machine and I hate 
> taking it down (it's got a better uptime record than SRP). By asking the 
> question, I figure I can learn a bit more from the great gurus here. Any 
> info/references are appreciated. TIA

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no - they won't persist but I think you could probably add them to
modules.conf in RH 9 but I would recommend a more robust approach -
depending upon how you firewall.

See:
http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~dranch/LINUX/ipmasq/c-html/firewall-
examples.html#RC.FIREWALL-IPTABLES

for a firewall script that sets up masq (if needed) and module loading

Craig

ps sorry about the html - wanted to hold long URL together in one line