I am thinking that I might upgrade my kernel to 2.4 from 2.2.18. Is this a good idea? are there any major problems I should watch out for? When I do make menuconfig what options can be removed because they aren't going to be used on my athlon, other than th obvious? I also want to have all periferals configured to be configured as modules, is this easy enough? Also how much has it changed since 2.2* ? Thanks D __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
I am thinking that I might upgrade my kernel to 2.4 from 2.2.18. Is this a good idea? are there any major problems I should watch out for? When I do make menuconfig what options can be removed because they aren't going to be used on my athlon, other than th obvious? I also want to have all periferals configured to be configured as modules, is this easy enough?
Also how much has it changed since 2.2* ?
I'm in the process of changing. Seems quite similar, but with added goodies. (LVM and reiserfs) The sound support appears to have changed a bit (can no longer get my card to work, but I use ALSA mostly) I've had to re-config by had, 'coz when I did a 'make oldconfig' from my 2.2.17 .config everything appeared to work fine, but when booted the new kernel wouldn't let e2fsck work properly... The other gotcha is that masquerading doesn't seem to be there yet for 2.4.* Not a biggie for me, YMMV
wbh wrote: [SNIP]
The other gotcha is that masquerading doesn't seem to be there yet for 2.4.* Not a biggie for me, YMMV
Yes it is! Check out netfilter/iptables. I have a firewall on a 2.4.3 kernel, running iptables and masquerading for a LAN as I type! Cheers, Laurie. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Laurie Brown laurie@brownowl.com PGP key at http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Even better, with iproute2 (easily added to iptables) - you can do all kinds of funky stuff with the correct kernel - traffic policing, queueing, prioritization etc... Make masquerading "real" cool, as you can restrict FTP traffic to half your available bandwidth, and all kinds of other cool stuff. Regards DanJ
wbh wrote:
[SNIP]
The other gotcha is that masquerading doesn't seem to be there yet for 2.4.* Not a biggie for me, YMMV
Yes it is! Check out netfilter/iptables. I have a firewall on a 2.4.3 kernel, running iptables and masquerading for a LAN as I type!
Cheers, Laurie. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Laurie Brown laurie@brownowl.com PGP key at http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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The other gotcha is that masquerading doesn't seem to be there yet for 2.4.* Not a biggie for me, YMMV
Yes it is! Check out netfilter/iptables. I have a firewall on a 2.4.3 kernel, running iptables and masquerading for a LAN as I type!
OK, how do I get equivalent functionality to ip_masq_* ? Especially quake...
wbh wrote:
The other gotcha is that masquerading doesn't seem to be there yet for 2.4.* Not a biggie for me, YMMV
Yes it is! Check out netfilter/iptables. I have a firewall on a 2.4.3 kernel, running iptables and masquerading for a LAN as I type!
OK, how do I get equivalent functionality to ip_masq_* ? Especially quake...
Try: http://appwatch.zdnet.com/lists/netfilter-list/2001-January/000025.html HINT: Google is your friend... Cheers, Laurie. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Laurie Brown laurie@brownowl.com PGP key at http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
On Wed, 23 May 2001, Laurie Brown wrote:
The other gotcha is that masquerading doesn't seem to be there yet for 2.4.* Not a biggie for me, YMMV
Yes it is! Check out netfilter/iptables. I have a firewall on a 2.4.3 kernel, running iptables and masquerading for a LAN as I type!
OK, how do I get equivalent functionality to ip_masq_* ? Especially quake...
Try:
http://appwatch.zdnet.com/lists/netfilter-list/2001-January/000025.html
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