Routing problems on VPN servers running FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE

[Brett Glass]

Qing:

I will try to build a system late tonight. I was stuck in 
Washington, DC for four days due to snow and have just returned to 
a large backlog of work. Which snapshot would you recommend?

--Brett Glass

At 11:03 AM 2/11/2010, Li, Qing wrote:


>Can you at least build one 8-stable system and see if the latest
>patches resolve your problems before we carry on with the
>"merge into 8-release" or other alternatives discussion ?
>
>-- Qing
>
>
>
>Date:      Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:41:38 -0700
>From:      Brett Glass <brett at lariat.net>
>To:        "Li, Qing" <qing.li at bluecoat.com>, <net at freebsd.org>
>Subject:   RE: Routing problems on VPN servers running FreeBSD  8.0-RELEASE
>Message-ID:  <201002050541.WAA04703 at lariat.net>
>In-Reply-To: 
><B583FBF374231F4A89607B4D08578A4306830994 at bcs-mail03.intern al.cacheflow.com>
>
>Qing:
>
>What about the possibility of going to 7.3-RELEASE? There is a lot
>that is good about 8.x, but when I build a production system I
>prefer to use a release that will have extended support. After all,
>it's awkward to build a production server that will need to be
>taken down for a major upgrade in only one year.
>
>I know that 7.2-RELEASE had problems with routing and PPP too, but
>they were different ones. Have the 7-STABLE branch been patched
>adequately since that time?
>
>--Brett Glass