[Ferm] Help with helpers

[Max Kellermann]

On 2011/11/18 18:30, "Kiss Gabor (Bitman)" <kissg at ssg.ki.iif.hu> wrote:
> Dear folks,
> 
> I try to enable TFTP traffic on a server.
> I searched Google for hours without easy success.
> Meanwhile several questions arised.
> 
> 1. I found that ip_conntrack_tftp kernel module must be loaded.
> Should I load it manually, or ferm can do it somehow?

ferm will not attempt to load kernel modules.  You may check if the
kernel auto-loads modules when you refer to a netfilter module, or you
may use ferm hooks.

> 2. This config finally works:
[...]
> Why isn't a simple "ACCEPT mod helper helper tftp" enough?

I don't know, but I don't know what happened and how it failed when
you tried that.

Max