October 2001
Intermediate to advanced
350 pages
8h 42m
English
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Chapter 13. Building a Routing Kernel
ONE OF THE MAIN SELLING POINTS of the GNU/Linux operating system is the ability to recompile the Linux kernel on demand.The ability to add needed functionality or to strip out unneeded bits was one of the key reasons that Linux has been so widely adopted. System administrators, software vendors, and power users have flexibility with Linux that they do not have with proprietary operating systems or hardware routing appliances.