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If the system is configured to prevent the loading of the "rds" kernel module, it will contain lines inside any file in "/etc/modprobe.d" or the deprecated"/etc/modprobe.conf". These lines instruct the module-loading system to run another program (such as "/bin/true") upon a module "install" event. Run the following command to search for such lines in all files in "/etc/modprobe.d" and the deprecated "/etc/modprobe.conf":
$ grep -r rds /etc/modprobe.conf /etc/modprobe.d
If no line is returned, this is a finding.
This is not a finding if the RDS service is required for proper system or application operation. Oracle Engineered Systems such as Exadata use the RDS service for InfiniBand-based communication with storage services.
The Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) protocol is a transport layer protocol designed to provide reliable high- bandwidth, low-latency communications between nodes in a cluster. To configure the system to prevent the "rds" kernel module from being loaded, add the following line to a file in the directory "/etc/modprobe.d":
install rds /bin/true