Followup: Crashes+return-rst / Solaris10 build problems / ncurses

Joseph Tam <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.firewalls.ipfilter
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On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Joseph Tam wrote:

> I've downloaded and installed the latest 4.1.23RC4 [sic: 4.1.32RC4 --jt]
> and have installed it on Solaris 8 and 9 hosts.
>
> Latest version seems to restore return-rst function
>
> 	The return-rst problem where RST packets were not being emitted
> 	also seems to have been fixed (some routing problem).  The latest
> 	version seems to jiggle the kernel enough to generate a routing
> 	entry for a returning RST packet.
>
> The latter fix encouraged me to try and replace the Solaris10's 4.1.9

Still broken with Solaris10.

> Lack of ncurses libraries
>
> 	It would be nice to have "ipfstat -t" working, but it seems to
> 	want the libncurses which I haven't installed.	I could install
> 	it, but what does Solaris10 ipf use since ncurses isn't part
> 	of Solaris?  Is it just compiled against the regular curses
> 	library.  Can I use that instead?
>
> 		STATETOP_INC=
> 		STATETOP_LIB=-lcurses

The answer is yes, this will work.

Joseph Tam <[email protected]>
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