Can I add a module to a prebuilt kernel?

[Jeff Gordon <jeff.gordon@wellnow.com>]

Forgive me if this is a frequent or recent question -- I've searched
various places and haven't found the answer, thus far.  I program in
Perl but not in C/C++.

I'm running a RH ES 3 system, and it appears _support_ for ipt_recent
is included in the kernel but libipt_recent.so is nowhere to be found.
Kernel source for the prebuilt kernel in the distribution is available.

Is there a simple way to build ipt_recent from source and have it
function with this kernel, without compiling a kernel from scratch?

Thanks kindly,

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 -- Jeff --   <http://www.wellnow.com>

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