On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Stephen Harris wrote: > On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 09:09:21AM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >> kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 2 >> >> Hey, wait a minute, I have in my /etc/modprobe.conf: alias net-pf-2 off >> >> WHAT GIVES HERE???? > > It's probably compiled into the kernel directly and not as a module. I'm not convinced .. you can start without network .. although that may just load the interfaces .. I would chkconfig network off and boot again. If net-pf-2 still loads in dmesg .. then I would believe it is compiled in .. but probably being called from something in rc.sysinit. Barry