I forgot to mention that this is on a Fedora Core 3 system. Sorry about that. Troy >>> "Troy.A Johnson" <troy.johnson at health.state.mn.us> 03/09/05 4:02 PM >>> I want to load the "ip_conntrack" and "ip_conntrack_ftp" iptables kernel modules at boot time. ... I am curious, though, if there is some syntax I could use in "/etc/modprobe.conf" to make these load at boot time. This seems "more correct" to me, but I have not found the syntax to make it work yet.