[ale] suggested kernel?

[Robert E. Karaffa, II]

You know, the value of this list is amazing.  I was poking around in my
Mandrake box at home the other night.  It acts as my DSL gateway.  I saw
some sort of "insmod" message in one of the logs that I didn't recognize.
Also saw a message that said something like "some port(s) were opened for
blah blah blah"...I can't remember what the message was.  It didn't ring any
loud alarm bells at that instance...now they're banging in my head like
there's no tomorrow!  Egads, somebody managed to get by my Bastille
firewall?  And I can't run home to check right now!  Damn!

-Bob K., shaken, AND stirred!


on 2/19/02 2:38 PM, Geoffrey at esoteric at 3times25.net wrote:

> 
> 
> Stephen Turner wrote:
>> why would someone want to make a kernel with all devices drivers etc
>> embeded in the kernel and why would they want to put as much as possible
>> into modules?
> 
> Arguments I've heard, not that I agree with them.
> 
> Why drivers in kernel:  If you build a firewall kernel, don't permit
> kernel modules, build all the drivers you need into the kernel, hacker's
> can't 'insmod' other drivers to get at your kernel.
> 
> Modules loaded in and out take/reduce memory foot prints when the
> modules are not loaded.
> 
>> 
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