Re: Updating ipfilter on FreeBSD 6.x

["Schuh Andreas" <ipf@s3h.at>]

FreeBSD 6.2 comes with IPFilter 4.1.13 (you can check that in the release
notes - see http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/relnotes-i386.html#CONTRIB).

If you want to use the latest version, you have to download, compile and install
it manually.

regards
Andy


On Sun, February 18, 2007 20:23, Martin Johnson wrote:
I run ipfilter on FreeBSD 6.1 (intel), using the RELENG_6_1 CVS
branch. On the whole it's pretty solid, but sometimes traffic is
blocked due to OOW errors, and the website www.activestate.com hangs
unless I plug outside the firewall.

So I guess it's time to update the firewall software.

I could do an in-place update from FreeSD 6.1 to 6.2, but presumably
the ipfilter in 6.2 is not really new enough.  Or, are all the
important fixes been included in RELENG_6_2 now?

So: What is the recommended way to update ipfilter on FreeBSD?


Thanks for any pointers!

- Martin.