My apologies,
I gave a very brief summary the other day saying that I had heard of no problems with the ping patch and I left it at that. I installed it myself with no problems. However, it looks as though some people are having troubles and they have asked for further details.
The original question is as follows....
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>Hi all.
>
>Has anyone successfully installed the ping patch yet? The last thing I
>heard was from someone who had problems with the install (couldn't
>reboot the kernel or something....?)
>
>I'm interested in installs done under 3.2C & 3.2D.
>
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I did the following.
I ftp'd the patch from the atlanta site ( atlanta.service.digital.com in the directory pub/mandatory_upgrades/AXP/OSF1/version) I got down the ping plus tar file.
>From what I can determine, the ping tar file doesn't have all of the patches needed to get the ping patch installed properly, so DEC redid the tar file with those extra files and called them the ping_plus tar file.
I extracted the files (NOTE: The in the patch directory are also contained in the tar file - no need to get the seperately).
I backed up the /sys/BINARY directory.
I then copied *.o and *.h from the directory 360-350248 directory (this was for for 3.2d-1, this dir name is different for each OS version) into /sys/BINARY . I then copied the file called ip_input.o to /sys/BINARY as well.
I then entered doconfig -c HOSTNAME
I moved the resultant vmunix file to root but I called it vmunix_ping so that I didn't overwrite the original vmunix. I then shutdown and booted up vmunix_ping. After I found that everything was OK I backed up the old vmunix and renamed vmunix_ping to vmunix so that it became the default boot file.
I hope that helps people...
Bruce Whittaker.
Bruce Whittaker
ANSTO - Physics Division
Phone - +61 (02) 9717 3662
Fax - +61 (02) 9717 3257
Received on Wed Oct 30 1996 - 23:49:49 NZDT