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Re: enabling ipchains/iptables



actually I was talking in general. One I recopmiled a full kernel to support my printer. parport etc...

 - diego
On 2001 December 15 &bet;,Saturday 15:38, guy keren wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Diego G. Iastrubni wrote:
> > basicly recompile the kernel with one or two new modules. Ok
> > I did this once, the only thing changed was one more module.
> > So why the new kernel (bzimage) was different, some bytes larger.
>
> the modules are not part of the _core_ of netfilter - netfilter itself
> sits inside the kernel (it has to, to form the hooks that allow its
> various modules to work) and thus the kernel would surely get larger.
> btw, netfilter has not just 1 or 2 moduels - it has around 15+ modules -
> unless you ocmpile them all into the kernel itself.
>
> if you already had netfilter in the kernel,and were just missing the
> ipchains compatibility layer - then i don't know (since i don't know if it
> erquires a change in netfilter's core or not).

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