On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, bacano wrote:
From: "Marc Heuse" <marc@suse.de>
1) it is not recommended to use the 2.4 kernel for security purposes yet.
You say this just because the susefirewall2 is not ready yet, or there are other reasons/concerns? Just to clear my question, what I want to know is if there are addicional reasons for you say that.
The reason is simple - the 2.4 network code has been heavily modified or rewritten. It takes a while to audit all this new stuff. LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer/ 90443 Nuernberg, Germany Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana.