Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 30 Aug 2002 03:45:14 -0700 | From | "Barry K. Nathan" <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.18-3 on rh 7.1? |
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On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 09:32:33AM +0100, Mat Harris wrote: > silly question compared to all you gurus on the list, but it needs to be > asked. I need to fun freeswan (secure wan) between sever a redhat > servers. the only patched kernel i am permitted to use is the rpm for > ipsec enables 2.4.18-3. will this kernel work on redhat 7.1, or will it > fall over at the first opportunity?
I've never done IPSec, but plain use of 2.4.18-3 does work with Red Hat 7.1. Note that you'll need to either satisfy the dependencies by upgrading some packages from Red Hat 7.3, or use --nodeps. Both work in my experiences.
However, note that: + 2.4.18-3 has a data corruption bug with ext3 on SMP systems, fixed in 2.4.18-4. + 2.4.18-4 (and -3) has weird NFS problems which are fixed in 2.4.18-5 + 2.4.18-[345] have security problems which are fixed in 2.4.18-10 (By the way, does anyone know if new 2.4.9-xx or 2.2.xx kernels are coming from Red Hat to fix these holes for those releases? Or have earlier Red Hat kernels (and releases) just been abandoned? Or are they just not affected?)
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