Re: what is "net-pf-19"?

["Gregory T. Norris" <haphazard@socket.net>]

On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 06:34:18AM -0600, Jonathan Guthrie wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Gregory T. Norris wrote:
> 
> > Since it doesn't seem to be hurting anything, I've disabled it for now
> > by adding "alias net-pf-19 off" to /etc/modutils/aliases... still, I'm
> > curious about what it was trying to load.
> 
> According to /usr/src/linux/include/linux/socket.h, something called 
> "Acorn Econet" uses protocol family 19.  I've never heard of it, but
> experimental support for it is in kernel 2.2.3.

I've never heard of it either - I was running 2.2.3 at the time, tho.
Guess I'll just leave it disabled, since it's very definitively
something which I'm not using.

It's good to know which file to look at for the full protocol-family
list, however.  Thanx!