revisit: turning some of the "always used" modules to built-in
Chris Ricker
kaboom at oobleck.net
Mon Jun 23 17:25:28 UTC 2008
On Sun, 22 Jun 2008, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> Category 2: Always loaded in default install
> --------------------------------------------
> Rationale: yes you can turn off your firewall.. but nobody should do that.
> The others are default-loaded as well
> - ip_tables, iptable_filter
> - ip6_tables, ip6table_filter
> - dm_mod
> - ipv6
> - battery, ac, button, video, output
I still block loading of ipv6 and friends on lots of machines -- typical
reasons are "memory's limited and IPv6 will never be used" or "IPv6 will
never be used so remove the attack surface"
later,
chris
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