We are running Digital Firewall Service (DFWS) V2.02 (a.k.a. DEC SEAL) on
DU V3.2C.
DEC custom-built this years ago, across three 3000-300's, after which all
"unnecessary" files were removed (all executables for telnet, ftp, etc.
man pages (makes it tough to RTFM), basically everything not considered
"essential").
Now we'd like to upgrade the operating system to V4.0, and
we'd like to know whether DFWS will survive an O/S upgrade from V3.2C to
V4.0 and would appreciate any tips, gotchas, horror stories, etc. from anyone
who has undergone this already.
Does DFWS need to be re-configured, re-compiled?, re-linked?
Is the O/S even upgrade-able with so many of the executables, man pages,
etc. removed? (Assuming that we have the execuatables that are actually run
by the upgrade script.) I can recall trying to apply patches to a Sun
where the procedure refused to do the upgrade if it didn't find the
file being replaced, and the file *had to* have the right size, checksum,
owner, group, creation date... What a nightmare. If DEC does that, then
we're outta luck.
Please do not suggest upgrading DFWS to AltaVista Firewall or anything else.
We've got to stick with what we have.
TIA,
gschmid_at_ccmail.sunysb.edu
Received on Tue Nov 25 1997 - 22:17:55 NZDT