> Why get your floppy driver ( +- 70K ) into the > main kernel of my servers if i'll probably use it no more than 2 times a > week ???
The answer is simple: For security reasons on firewalls (and other servers espacially with user shell accounts) you should always use, if possible, a kernel with no module support at all. One exeption is if you use a special module that hardens the security like lids. This is easy to do, because a firewall do not need a lot of drivers in the kernel (nics, ide, netfilter,filesystem,networking ... not much more) And by the way - RAM is cheap like dirt ;-) Ralf
