2.4.18-3 on rh 7.1?
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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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 <[email protected]>