Eric Wood wrote: lsmod tells me that ip_conntrack_ftp is loaded but I want to understand how it got loaded. It was not defined in these files: /etc/sysconfig/iptables-config /etc/rc.d/*
the firewall script usually tries to insmod this module rc.d/init.d/firewall: insmod /lib/modules/$mods/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_o