4.9-STABLE is a good place to be, and if your like me you will include = IPFILTER into the kernel too.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [/home/keith]> nmap mgw1.iland.com Starting nmap 3.27 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2003-12-18 10:38 CST Interesting ports on mgw1.iland.com (64.154.20.19): (The 1621 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed) Port State Service 22/tcp open ssh 25/tcp open smtp Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 2.625 seconds I like being able to tell my boxes to ignore everything thats not ssh or = smtp. Keep in mind may times when upgrading to stable I have had to = re-compile postfix for what ever reason. If you want to upgrade to = STABLE or load IPF into the kerenel I would suggest trying it out on = another computer first unless you know what your doing. -----Original Message----- From: Richard Cramer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 12:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [IMGate] FreeBSD Upgrade The advice given to stay with FreeBSD V4.9-stable is good advice. =20 There are some major changes coming to current version 5.2 which=20 has not been released yet. Wait till then and read the email=20 archives for current before you upgrade. =20 An alternative way of upgrading is to use CVS and makeworld. It=20 takes practice to build confidence using this method or at least it did=20 for me. Read the FreeBSD manual at www.freebsd.org. Then=20 reread. Then practice on a non-productional machine. One other=20 secret that I have learned is that once you are comfortable with cvs=20 upgrades, do them every couple of weeks rather then every 6=20 months. They will go much more smoothly and quickly. YMMV. =20 Good luck. Dick -- President Cramer Systems Consulting / Sytex Access Ltd. =20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] POB 2385 Fairfax, VA 22031-0385 = Ph:=20 703.425.2515 Mid-Atlantic: Fairfax, VA --- SouthEast: Bradenton/Sarasota Managed Hosting & Colocation, LAN & WAN Engineering, Unix=20 Consulting We use and support: FreeBSD, MAC OS X, Sun Systems, Apache=20 & Postfix
