If you can't load modules it takes away one way that someone could install a LKM or trojan on the machine. Dan On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 14:47, Khanh Tran wrote: > Thanks for the insight. I didn't think it should affect the performance. > As far as security goes for dynamically loaded modules, are you talking > about someone getting at the modules from the local file system? > > Khanh Tran > Network Operations > Sarah Lawrence College > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Daniel Wittenberg [mailto:daniel-wittenberg@starken.com] > Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2003 3:05 PM > To: Khanh Tran > Subject: Re: module performance > > > Linux kernel modules are not supposed to suffer any performance > difference when loaded dynamically or statically. It applies to any > module (because of the way they are loaded), so you are good just doing > the modules. Using statically built kernel's without module support is > better for security, but a PITA to upgrade. > > Dan
