On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 04:20:40PM +0100, Ruprecht Jaeschke wrote: : I would like to know if there is a specific reason why in the precompiled : kernels the Firewalling Support is not enabled? I think it doesn't cost much : time to do so cause there are surely lots of ppl who like to use a firewall : without compiling the kernel new. I don't maintain the kernel-image packages (or any packages for that matter :), but I would guess that firewalling features are just too hard to predict. I'm willing to bet that many people who want firewalling also want masquerading; to do that you need "Optimise as Router not Host". This clearly isn't a win for the average case. I do see that it's hard for many users to compile the kernel; the sources are huge, compilation takes time, and it's hard to know exactly what you need. I still have a dream of a kernel build daemon somewhere that lets you know when your new kernel is done and ready for download :) Cheers, -- Nathan Norman GPG Key ID 1024D/51F98BB7 Key fingerprint = C5F4 A147 416C E0BF AB73 8BEF F0C8 255C 51F9 8BB7
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