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| author | archie <archie@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-05-16 17:30:15 +0000 |
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| committer | archie <archie@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-05-16 17:30:15 +0000 |
| commit | 7faffe08a53e9fd2e664451fb6634f6377a33a46 (patch) | |
| tree | 8c1275990ab10462c406a2d56d012c529a846743 /share | |
| parent | 7762b1766a57fefbf30442335c20f0f85af4bec6 (diff) | |
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Add BUGS section describing the requirement to manually load the KLD.
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| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/ng_ether.4 | 13 |
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diff --git a/share/man/man4/ng_ether.4 b/share/man/man4/ng_ether.4 index aff026c..3041243 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/ng_ether.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/ng_ether.4 @@ -197,6 +197,19 @@ tracing packet flow, statistics, etc.: ngctl mkpeer fxp0: tee lower right ngctl connect fxp0: lower upper left .Ed +.Sh BUGS +The automatic KLD module loading mechanism that works for most +other netgraph node types does not work for the +.Nm +node type, +because +.Nm +nodes are not created on demand; instead, they are created when +Ethernet interfaces are attached or when the KLD is first loaded. +Therefore, if the KLD is not statically compiled into the kernel, +it is necessary to load the KLD manually in order to bring the +.Nm +nodes into existence. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr arp 4 , .Xr netgraph 4 , |
