From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 11 3:43:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay3-gui.server.ntli.net (relay3-gui.server.ntli.net [194.168.4.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F321737B507 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 03:41:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from pc4-card4-0-cust162.cdf.cable.ntl.com ([80.4.14.162] helo=rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net ident=mailnull) by relay3-gui.server.ntli.net with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #2) id 16aEq4-0004yg-00; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 11:41:40 +0000 Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net with local (Exim 3.34 #1) id 16aEq3-0009Nq-00; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 11:41:39 +0000 Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 11:41:39 +0000 From: Ceri To: Michiel Boland Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: if_gif.ko fails to load on a kernel without INET6 Message-ID: <20020211114139.GA35924@rhadamanth> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri , Michiel Boland , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- keep a mild groove on To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message