Here's a follow-up to this train of thought: Does someone feel like giving a somewhat detailed explanation of the difference between using insmod and modprobe to load kernel modules? This is probably slightly off-topic, but still relevant to loading ip_tables modules and the performance of the firewall. Thanks again... Khanh Tran Network Operations Sarah Lawrence College -----Original Message----- From: Khanh Tran [mailto:khanh@slc.edu] Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2003 8:16 AM To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org Subject: module performance Does anyone feel like giving a somewhat detailed explanation of the differences in loading the ip_tables modules versus building it into the kernel? I've got several RedHat Linux firewalls and when it comes to upgrading the kernels, loading ip_tables as modules is easy. Otherwise, I have to upgrade my kernel and then go back and re-compile ip_tables into the kernel. This has proven to be much more time consuming, especially with the growth of ip_tables use on our network. Thoughts? Thanks in advance? Khanh Tran Network Operations Sarah Lawrence College
