appletalk+psnap+ipx modules in the kernel-3.0-0.rc3.git5.1.fc16

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Sat Jun 18 19:49:35 UTC 2011


On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 12:54:14PM +0400, Lucas wrote:
 > Dear All
 > 
 > I have installed the latest kernel from koji and found out that now I have 3 new modules:
 > appletalk
 > psnap
 > ipx
 > 
 > I know what is IPX.
 > 
 > But do we really need to have AppleTalk always loaded in the kernel?

Protocols get auto-loaded when something tries to open a socket belonging
to that family, or when a packet is recieved from the network.

	Dave



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