Re: [leaf-devel] ipsec kernel module dependency

[Andrew <ni...@se...>]

23.12.2010 21:10, Erich Titl пишет:
> Andrew
>
> on 23.12.2010 18:14, Andrew wrote:
>> 23.12.2010 18:56, Erich Titl пишет:
>>> Andrew
>>>
> ..
>
>> Yes, you're right. But moddb doesn't contains ipsec module - it contains
>> only essential modules that are used commonly (popular NICs, iptables).
>> So it isn't dependent by openswan.
> But where would we deploy such modules, there has been a discussion
> whether they belong in the openswan.lrp or the moddb.lrp. Typically such
> modules will be saved in moddb, but we need to provide a container to
> fetch them from for the first time. The same may be true for a number of
> NIC drivers. Some platforms will not provide sufficient storage for a
> fully populated module tarball.
>
> cheers
>
> Erich
If we will place all into module tarball, we just waste RAM that are 
valuable on some embedded routerboards and can be spent in more rational 
way..
Also I think that any system will have 8M HDD/CF space for modules 
tarball placing, and decompressing of single module from tarball isn't 
hard task.