Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 22:31:20 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@freebsd.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Heads up, a bit: ephemeral port range changes Message-ID: <20020403221504.K59420-100000@patrocles.silby.com> In-Reply-To: <20020403221056.GB89405@madman.nectar.cc>
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On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 10:00:27PM -0600, Mike Silbersack wrote: > > If this really is going to cause problems, > > it's better that we find out now rather than wait until 4.6-release. (I > > don't believe it will cause problems, in any case.) > > I disagree. Some people running -STABLE will be behind firewalls > which they don't administrate. After updating one day [1], they may > suddenly have network applications failing in strange ways. For some > people, it will be very hard to track down the problem. Far more sweeping changes have been made to -stable in the past. If someone does experience failing outbound connections, I'm sure they can re-read UPDATING, ask on a mailing list, or just go back to their previous kernel until they figure it out. Actually, I still have to go get permission from Warner to touch UPDATING. I'll go do that now. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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