On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, Darren Reed wrote:
<rant>
With the rate of change (and quantity of change) going into the
Solaris TCP/IP stack (and knowing the current bugcount), I can
only say that the Solaris 10 TCP/IP stack feels like "beta code"
that doesn't get really well tested :-( Update 4 is going to change
TCP/IP code in a very significant way (IP Instances), so unless
you really have to, it might be worth avoiding Updates 4 and 5
and go straight from 3 to 6 (there will be an Update 5 but it will
be not far behind U4).. or perhaps even 2 to 6, if 3 is causing
you problems where 2 wasnt'.
I would recommend people download 125014-02 while you
can and keep it somewhere safe because 125014-03 (and others)
will not be able to be applied to anything prior to Update 4.
If you still have problems and have support contracts, ring up
Sun and hassle them and tell them you want a patch for that
release of Solaris10 (with Solaris's IPFilter) and dont want
to upgrade to update 4.
</rant>
Darren, how to tell which update we have? I am looking at
/etc/release on a machine here:
% cat /etc/release
Solaris 10 11/06 s10s_u3wos_10 SPARC
^^^
Is this it?
Jeff Earickson
Colby College
