[pca] Bad IP Filter patches

2009-12-18 Thread Martin Paul
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 machin

Re: [pca] Bad IP Filter patches

2009-12-18 Thread Don O'Malley
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:

Re: [pca] Bad IP Filter patches

2009-12-18 Thread Don O'Malley
Quick Update: The Engineer was already aware of the issue and has a lot of the background work (that we need to do prior to withdrawing a patch) complete. I'm still to see the official request to withdraw the patch, but I would expect that these patches will be withdrawn later today or tomorr

Re: [pca] Bad IP Filter patches

2009-12-18 Thread Don O'Malley
Hi, This patch is in the process of being withdrawn from SunSolve now. The withdrawal from the Akamai servers will take a couple of hours to process and changes will be reflected in patchdiag.xref overnight. I'm hoping we'll have the accompanying SunAlert for this issue published early next