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Shawn Odekirk

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From: Frederick, Maryland

Registered: 2012-05-03

Posts: 2

Arch and TIPC

I'm fairly new to Arch and Linux, and I'm trying to learn about TIPC.
I'm running Arch 3.3.4.
I've downloaded and compiled tipcutils-2.0.1, but when I run tipc-config all I get is "TIPC module not installed".
I've tried things like "modprobe tipc" but I get "Module tipc not found".
I've Googled for "arch tipc" and was surprised that I couldn't find very many results.
Can someone tell me what I need to do to enable TIPC under Arch?

Thanks,
Shawn

roentgen

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Registered: 2011-03-15

Posts: 91

Re: Arch and TIPC

I've tried things like "modprobe tipc" but I get "Module tipc not found".

I guess this may be because the ARCH kernel is not built with tipc support

# zcat /proc/config.gz | grep tipc
# CONFIG_TIPC is not set

You may try building a custom kernel or request tipc support in the stock arch kernel at https://bugs.archlinux.org.

Shawn Odekirk

Member

From: Frederick, Maryland

Registered: 2012-05-03

Posts: 2

Re: Arch and TIPC

roentgen,
Thank you for the info.
I built a custom kernel with TIPC configured as a module and was able to load the module and use the tipc-config utility.
Why is TIPC not supported by the stock arch kernel? Is TIPC not particularly popular among arch users, or does supporting TIPC as a module add overhead most users don't want? I'm not sure if adding support for a particular module adds overhead for those who don't use it.

Thanks,
Shawn

rwd

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Registered: 2009-02-08

Posts: 664

Re: Arch and TIPC

Isn't TIPC a feature meant for clusters? My guess is that isn't built in by default because it doesn't fit with the most common use of arch, i.e. desktop or small server.