On Mon, 2013-09-30 at 22:49 +0200, Jan van den Berg wrote: > Hi, > > from /lib/modules/3.2.0-4-686-pae/modules.dep I gather that somewhere > it was decided that the nf_conntrack and ipvs module are dependant on > one another: > > kernel/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs.ko: > kernel/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack.ko kernel/lib/libcrc32c.ko > > This is also what "modinfo ip_vs" tells me. > > But what if I specifically dont want to use connection tracking? [...] A dependency of module A on module B does not necessarily mean that using module A results in module B being used, beyond some trivial initialisation. In fact, connection tracking for IPVS is disabled unless you specifically enable it (except for FTP servers). See https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/ipvs-sysctl.txt Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Life is like a sewer: what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
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