[lug] Making Modules stay on reboot

[Hugh Brown]

If you look at the startup files, typically there is a piece of the script
that greps on the alias and then does a modprobe.  So the short answer is
put it in your startup files.  e.g. put this in /etc/rc.d/rc.local

modprobe IPFTPMasq

Hugh


""Mark (Andy) Jolley""
> 
> I'm trying to make my masqing firewall accept FTP without problems.  I've
> found that if I load ip_masq_ftp.o with insmod my ftp through the firewall
> now works.  However, as soon as I restart the box, I have to reload this
> module.  How can I make it permanent?
> I've tried adding this line to my modules.conf file:
> alias IPFTPMasq ip_masq_ftp
> 
> but after a reboot, I do a lsmod, and it's not loaded.
> Thanks
> 
> Andy Jolley
> majolley at qwest.net
> 
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