Re: Problems compiling ipvs-0.8.2

[Daniel Martin Legazpe <daniel.martin-legazpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Ben, I've got running my Redhat 6.0 with 2.4.12 kernel with all the
needed patchets and with netfilter support. So, this can not be the problem,
can it ?

Thanks. BR. Daniel.

Ben North wrote:
> Daniel Martin Legazpe wrote:
> > But, when I 'make install' I've got the following new error:
> >
> >    [root@eceiolab ipvs]# insmod ip_vs.o
> >                    ip_vs.o: unresolved symbol buffermem_pages
> >                    ip_vs.o: unresolved symbol nr_free_pages
> >                    ip_vs.o: unresolved symbol page_cache_size
> >                    ip_vs.o: [...]
> >
> > Any idea ??
> >     
>
> Even if you compile IPVS as a module, there are still some
> kernel changes required.  There should be a patch file called
> linux_kernel_ksyms_c.diff in your ipvs-0.x.y directory, which
> should be applied to your kernel source as described in the
> README.  It says:
>
> # First, apply the ksyms diff file
> # to the kernel souce.
> #         cd /usr/src/linux
> #         cat <path-name>/linux_kernel_ksyms_c.diff | patch -p1 
> # Then, rebuild a Linux kernel with Netfilter support.
>
> Then you have to install the kernel, modify lilo.conf (if that's
> what you're using), and reboot the new kernel.  The changes in
> that patch file make the kernel export three new symbols, the
> ones which are unresolved above.
>
> Good luck; hope that helps.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ben.
>
>