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First version of kmod released

First version of kmod released

Posted Dec 28, 2011 20:56 UTC (Wed) by robbe (subscriber, #16131)
In reply to: First version of kmod released by nix
Parent article: First version of kmod released

Hmm, on netfilter based firewalls, I like the ability to have some seldomly used filter modules lying around, and being able to load them "on demand". I almost never do this, so it is more of a (in?)security blanket.

If we tread into proprietary waters, most Check Point firewalls are based on Linux and load part of their code as a monstrously big kernel module -- making this feature mandatory there.


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