Loading dummynet via loader.conf doesn't work

Luigi Rizzo rizzo at iet.unipi.it
Thu Jun 3 15:32:41 UTC 2010


On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 09:53:18PM +0300, Dmitry Pryanishnikov wrote:
> Hello!
> 
>   In RELENG_6 loading dummynet.ko from /boot/loader.conf
> 
> dummynet_load="YES"
> 
> works correctly. However in fresh RELENG_8 it results in strange
> behaviour: loader shows /boot/kernel/dummynet.ko getting loaded, then
> adds "loading required module 'dummynet'". However 'lsmod' from loader
> and kldstat/ipfw show that dummynet is not actually loaded! Yes, I'm
> aware of dummynet_enable
> rc.conf variable, just curious why loading dummynet via loader ceased to work...

there might be some missing dependency at the end of the module.

thanks for the report, will check.
cheers
luigi


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