On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 11:09:42AM -0600, Steve Borho wrote:
> loadable kernel modules seem to be a requirement for ip masq. This may
> change with the new 2.4 kernel, but I doubt it will boot any faster on
> your 386 :^)
Ok, of course you were right. I should've taken the IP Masquerading
HOWTO a bit more literal (the modules thing *is* mentioned...).
Anyway, I recompiled the kernel yesterday: I basically took the
monolithic kernel I had (i.e. all hardware specific drivers (especially
NIC) compiled in) and just added module support but no kerneld module
support (i.e. modules donb't get loaded automatically). The only modules
built were the ones I need for masquerading, which get iserted
explicitly in rc.local.
To my great joy, the penalty on boot-up was negligible - I reckon that's
because there's no module dependencies to speak of and no modules.conf
file.
Thanks for the response,
Thomas
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