From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 28 5:52:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.liwing.de (mail.liwing.de [213.70.188.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B03A37B401 for ; Tue, 28 May 2002 05:52:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 6162 invoked from network); 28 May 2002 13:03:06 -0000 Received: from stingray.liwing.de (HELO liwing.de) ([213.70.188.164]) (envelope-sender ) by mail.liwing.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 28 May 2002 13:03:06 -0000 Message-ID: <3CF37BC4.B768F2B5@liwing.de> Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 14:44:52 +0200 From: Jens Rehsack Organization: LiWing IT-Services X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rafter Man Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel modules References: <20020528123929.32359.qmail@linuxmail.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rafter Man wrote: > > Hi FreeBSD'ers > > From a security point of view, I am not so happy about kernel modules being loaded dynamic. AFAIK linux has many kernel component which are available as module only, too. As in linux you can tell freebsd which kernel modules it has to build (and which not). > I know you can change the securelevel, so this can't be done, but my question is: In the > future, will all kernel modules also be available trough a static kernel? ??? Some things doesn't make sense in a static kernel. Another point is uptime, it's (as far the interface keeps) more easy reload a kernel module than the kernel :-), an if uptime is important (f.e. 99.999% per year) it's more secure having kernel modules. > Another thing is the FREEBSD base system. I don't know if it is big compared to other unix's, but I hope > (again for security) for a small and well organized base system. The base system (minimal) is minimal. Of course, it's not just only a kernel, but quite secure for me in the last time. > Best regards > Rafter > > Please cc to me (I am not on the list). > -- > Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org > > Powered by Outblaze Regards, Jens -- L i W W W i Jens Rehsack L W W W L i W W W W i nnn gggg LiWing IT-Services L i W W W W i n n g g LLLL i W W i n n g g Friesenstraße 2 gggg 06112 Halle g g g Tel.: +49 - 3 45 - 5 17 05 91 ggg e-Mail: Fax: +49 - 3 45 - 5 17 05 92 http://www.liwing.de/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message