> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 Hell.Surfers@cwctv.net wrote:
> > well only if it was used little amounts, like once every hour, it would
> > dynamically unload in between,
>
> That's ok then. It shouldn't produce significant overhead. But on the
> routers that I run I have either no netfilters at all, or they keep
> running, so even if they were a module, they'd never have any time to
> unload.
Only if you have a cron job running rmmod -a will the module unload.
The kernel never unloads modules without being asked.
Eric
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