Ho'ala Greevy wrote:
hey folks,
It's been a few years since i did this, so any help you can provide is
greatly appreciated.
I need to patch a kernel from 2.4.9-31 to 2.4.12 and then apply another
patch to enable PPTP masquerading -
http://www.impsec.org/linux/masquerade/netfilter_pptp_2_4_12.patch.gz
PPTP patch is now in the patch-o-matic. You should be able to use any
recent kernel (I reccomend 2.4.19-rc as .19 has lots of netfilter
fixes), though 2.4.12 might be a bit old (and wasn't a very good kernel
anyway IIRC). You will probably also have to patch with newnat (which
you want anyway, trust me).
Also, you don't patch kernel binaries; you patch the kernel source
trees. In this case, none of the vanilla patches would work anyway
since 2.4.9-31 is an extremely modified redhat series.
It's my understanding that kernel patches must be made incrementally i.e.,
apply 2.4.10 before applying 2.4.11, but on the kernel.org site
(http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/), the 2.4.11 patch series is
labeled as "patch-2.4.11-dontuse.gz"
hmmmm....
Yes they do have to be done incrementally. 2.4.11 is labeled dontuse
because it had a severe filesystem corruption bug. The dontuse is there
to tell people to NOT run that kernel. The patch is provided for
patching up to a later kernel and historical purposes only.
Aloha,
Ho'ala
--MonMotha
