2.4.18-3 on rh 7.1?

2.4.18-3 on rh 7.1?

[Mat Harris]

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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?

thanks guys and keep up the good work, even if it does baffle mortals
like myself

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Re: 2.4.18-3 on rh 7.1?

[Barry K. Nathan]

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?)

-Barry K. Nathan <barryn@pobox.com>