El miÃ, 08 de 09 de 2004 a las 16:10, Aleksandar Milivojevic escribiÃ: > James B. Hiller wrote: > > Hi! > > > > No takers? Or have I put this in the wrong forum? If I have, please > > let me know where to go with it. > > Wish I could help you. But I never seem to get past the point of even > applying the patches ;-) > > Sure, those I don't need apply clean, those that I'm interested in like > tcp windows tracking always fail. > > BTW, why do we need to recompile entire kernel and iptables, just to get > one tiny miny module installed? It kind of beats the hole idea of > modularity and loadable modules, isn't it? (well, at least half of the > idea behind it, anyhow) Why can't we just compile two source files and > place resulting object files into appropriate directories > (kernel/iptables version independent)? And not to have to worry about > recompiling them when new kernel release is out there. Patches changes the source code of the kernel and iptables in a lot of places, not just a modular place in the code you can separate from the rest, that's why you can't patch code from modules or pieces of code, because many places in the code are changed when you apply the patches. -- Jose Maria Lopez Hernandez Director Tecnico de bgSEC jkerouac@xxxxxxxxx bgSEC Seguridad y Consultoria de Sistemas Informaticos http://www.bgsec.com ESPAÃA The only people for me are the mad ones -- the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles. -- Jack Kerouac, "On the Road"
