Thanks for the heads up Martin.
I'll follow up with the engineers involved with the patch to confirm.
I'll keep you posted.
Best,
-Don
Martin Paul wrote:
Hi,
A word of warning for all of you who are running Solaris IP Filter. It
is strongly suspected that the current ipf patches are faulty:
141505 -- < 05 RS- 11 SunOS 5.10_x86: ipf patch
141506 -- < 05 RS- 11 SunOS 5.10: ipf patch
I just helped a colleague fixing a problem where a machine became
unresponsive on the network about 5-6 minutes after reboot. Here's a
thread on Sun's Networking Forum started by someone who had the same
issue:
http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5420590&tstart=0
There are other threads describing problems with these patches in the
same forum - look for the patch numbers in the subject:
http://forums.sun.com/forum.jspa?forumID=903
No idea whether there's an open case already, but *I* would definitely
put these patches on the ignore list on any system running Solaris IP
Filter until they are marked as BAD or new revisions are available.
Martin.
