[CLUE-Tech] RedHat 8.0 upgrade problem 1.2.8

[Jed S. Baer]

On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 10:42:28 -0600
"Friedman, Jason" <Jason.Friedman at xemkt.com> wrote:

> My goal is to get either 1.2.6a or 1.2.8 iptables working.  I sure do
> wish I understood what a kernel module was.

A kernel module is simply a chunk of code which performs a particular
function, which can be loaded into and used by a running kernel. It's like
a shared-object library, except it's for the kernel, instead of a
user-space program. Typical examples of kernel modules are device drivers.

jed
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