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Configuring a new kernel is a dreaded task here. It seems I walk |
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through a bewildering array of stuff that when pressing F1 on them I |
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get more bewildering information I barely understand a word of. |
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For 8 or 9 yrs now I've mostly skirted the issue by using defaults. |
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I hnow the shortcoming is mine but still it is a massive amount of |
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knowledge needed to really know what most of those settings do. |
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Of course I know the easy ones but it appears thats never enough to |
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walk through and end up with a pared down but fully usable kernel. |
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In the end I usually just `genkernel all' and let ten thousand modules |
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be made and forget it. |
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I'd like to know more... enough so that when kernel config time rolls |
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around its not a frustrating and time consuming chore ... unless I go |
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the genkernel route. |
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I see plenty of howtos out there about kernel configuration but the |
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ones I've scanned or used take you through the steps but never really |
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teach you how to understand what all those setting do or entail. |
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I also realize that the kernel is a moving target and configurations |
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change literally with every kernel. But there must be a major base of |
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settings that change only slowly. Ones a user can learn enough about |
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that it isn't such a bewildering experience to try to get the settings |
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right in one or two goes. |
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And of course the kicker is that I'd like to learn this without weeks |
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and weeks of pounding away at it. |
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My current quest involved getting a kernel with full barrel iptables |
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and conn_track settings in place. The usual problem is that the howtos |
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are dealing with a much older (in kernel devel time) kernel that |
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actually has different or not all the setting currently available. |
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Can someone steer me to a more `in depth' tutorial? Or to something |
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they've found to really throw some light the chore? Not necessarily |
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about iptables but just the general chore of configuring a kernel |
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wisely. |
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