I'm pretty sure one of these disabled kernel options below is
causing the warning:

# ssh root@localhost
socket: Protocol not supported

given this is a very slow host at a remote location, I was
hoping someone could clue me in on which option will enable "ssh
sockets". (I'm not using GENERIC because this host is vary low on
RAM as well.)

Thanks,
// George


# Networking options
options         GATEWAY         # packet forwarding
options         INET            # IP + ICMP + TCP + UDP
#options        INET6           # IPV6
#options        IPSEC           # IP security
#options        IPSEC_ESP       # IP security (encryption part; define w/IPSEC)
#options        IPSEC_NAT_T     # IPsec NAT traversal (NAT-T)
#options        IPSEC_DEBUG     # debug for IP security
#options        MROUTING        # IP multicast routing
#options        PIM             # Protocol Independent Multicast
#options        NS              # XNS
#options        NSIP            # XNS tunneling over IP
#options        ISO,TPIP        # OSI
#options        EON             # OSI tunneling over IP
#options        CCITT,LLC,HDLC  # X.25
#options        NETATALK        # AppleTalk networking protocols
#options        PPP_BSDCOMP     # BSD-Compress compression support for PPP
#options        PPP_DEFLATE     # Deflate compression support for PPP
#options        PPP_FILTER      # Active filter support for PPP (requires bpf)
options         PFIL_HOOKS      # pfil(9) packet filter hooks
options         IPFILTER_LOG    # ipmon(8) log support
#options        IPFILTER_DEFAULT_BLOCK  # block all packets by default
#options        TCP_DEBUG       # Record last TCP_NDEBUG packets with SO_DEBUG

# network pseudo-devices
#pseudo-device  bpfilter        8       # Berkeley packet filter
pseudo-device   ipfilter                # IP filter (firewall) and NAT
pseudo-device   loop                    # network loopback
#pseudo-device  ppp             2       # Point-to-Point Protocol
#pseudo-device  pppoe                   # PPP over Ethernet (RFC 2516)
#pseudo-device  sl              2       # Serial Line IP
#pseudo-device  strip           2       # Starmode Radio IP (Metricom)
#pseudo-device  irframetty              # IrDA frame line discipline
pseudo-device   tap                     # virtual Ethernet
#pseudo-device  tun             2       # network tunneling over tty
#pseudo-device  gre             2       # generic L3 over IP tunnel
#pseudo-device  gif             4       # IPv[46] over IPv[46] tunnel (RFC1933)
#pseudo-device  faith           1       # IPv[46] tcp relay translation i/f
#pseudo-device  stf             1       # 6to4 IPv6 over IPv4 encapsulation
#pseudo-device  vlan                    # IEEE 802.1q encapsulation
pseudo-device   bridge                  # simple inter-network bridging
options         BRIDGE_IPF              # bridge uses IP/IPv6 pfil hooks too
pseudo-device   pf                      # PF packet filter
pseudo-device   pflog                   # PF log if



-- 
George Georgalis, systems architect, administrator <IXOYE><
http://galis.org/ cell:646-331-2027 mailto:george@galis.org