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Date:      Mon, 11 Feb 2002 11:41:39 +0000
From:      Ceri <setantae@submonkey.net>
To:        Michiel Boland <boland@carmel.diva.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: if_gif.ko fails to load on a kernel without INET6
Message-ID:  <20020211114139.GA35924@rhadamanth>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10202111212180.20815-100000@carmel.diva.nl>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10202111212180.20815-100000@carmel.diva.nl>

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On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 12:27:47PM +0100, Michiel Boland wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I compiled and installed a kernel without 'options INET6' and
> 'pseudo-device gif'. I decided later on that gif(4) is quite a handy
> feature after all. I did not want to rebuild the kernel, so I tried to
> load the if_gif.ko module instead.
> 
> That did not work. The kernel reports 'link_elf: symbol ip6_gif_hlim
> undefined'.
> 
> So it looks like if_gif.ko is compiled with INET6 even if this option is
> disabled in the configuration file. I notice now that
> /src/sys/modules/if_gif/Makefile defines INET6 so that might it.
> 
> Both 4.4-RELEASE and 4.5-RELEASE exhibit these symptoms.
> 
> Is this something worthy of a PR?

I doubt it.
The gif device is used for tunneling IPv6 over IPv4, so it's quite
reasonable that it would require INET6.

Ceri

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