[pca] Bad IP Filter patches

[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This patch is in the process of being withdrawn from SunSolve now.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 week.

Best,
-Don
 

Don O'Malley wrote:
> 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 would expect that these patches will be withdrawn later today or 
> tomorrow, with a SunAlert being published for the issue by Monday.
>
> Best,
> -Don
>
> Don O'Malley wrote:
>> 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.
>>>
>>
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