Re: Q: Howto patch OS with ipfilter

Darren Reed <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.firewalls.ipfilter
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Rugen, Len wrote:
>
> The systems are Solaris 9, I recently installed a current (at the 
> time) version of ipfilter. Now I need to patch the OS. I can’t find 
> any doc on how to treat ipfilter. I think the safe way would be:
>
> 1 – remove ipf, ipfx and pfil
>
> 2 – reboot
>
> 3 – install patches w/ reboots as necessary
>
> 4 – rebuild pfil and ipfilter reinstalling the packages
>
> 5 - reboot
>
> Comments? Be gentle if I’m off track…
>

That is the safest path to take, yes.

Darren
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