Hi all, I want to insert these following modules to the kernel so as i do not have to be loading them everytime the linux box reboots.

modprobe nf_conntrack_proto_gre
modprobe nf_nat_proto_gre
modprobe ip_nat_pptp
modprobe ip_conntrack_pptp

I added these modules to /etc/modprobe.d and upon reboot, got a massive amount of errors. When I use to load the modules manually, there was no issue. So it tells me that I have misconfigured when I need to insert the module to be loaded as part of the kernel.

Anyone knows what I 'should' be configuring to get this to work?

Thanks again.

I'm using Ubuntu and on my system /etc/modprobe.d is a directory. I usually put modules that need to be loaded in /etc/modules with just the module name.

On your system is modprobe.d a file? What system do you use?

I use centos 5.2

And yes you are right, modprobe.d is a directory, i also have a file in etc called modprobe.conf

Are you able to tell me how you store these modules in modprobe.d directory?

No, I don't know centos. If there is a file /etc/modules, then you can put the module name in that file. But I don't know how centos works; so they may not use that file for loading modules.

You don't store modules there. You create a file with the same entry that would go in modprobe.conf. It doesn't really matter which you do.
e.g.: cat /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia
options nvidia NVreg_DeviceFileUID=0 NVreg_DeviceFileGID=33 NVreg_DeviceFileMode=0660

Debian is probably different. Do you have a file that lists the modules to load at boot time? On SuSE, there is /etc/sysconfig/kernel where you can add the kernel modules to load in a variable. I think that debian may have a similar file.

Manually load the modules and look at them with lsmod and modinfo to see which are prerequisites of the others. I wonder if the order you are loading them is important or if your modprobe.conf entries need to indicate that. Also try running "sudo /sbin/depmod -a" in case that needs updating.

Sorry, I misread. I don't know where I got the idea that you are using debian.

If you look in /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.dep you may see a line such as:
/lib/modules/2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64/kernel/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_pptp.ko: /lib/modules/2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64/kernel/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_gre.ko

The dependencies are loaded right to left. If modules.dep isn't up to date it may not have the dependency info and cause errors if modules are loaded in the wrong order. What were the errors you were seeing? Another possibility is if you are missing a needed parameter in the modprobe.conf entry. However, I didn't find any parameters when I used modinfo.

You could try running modprobe with the -nv option. -n (dry run) -v (verbose) to load the modules. Also, what are the error messages you were seeing?

Thanks ill give that a try!

It's not the most elegant approach, but on RHEL / CentOS systems I simply append to /etc/rc.d/rc.local e.g.: