Re: Will 5.4 be an "Extended Life" release?

2005-04-17 Thread Colin Percival
Brett Glass wrote: > At 07:42 PM 4/17/2005, Colin Percival wrote: >>FreeBSD 4.11 will be supported until at least January 2007. > > Any chance of a 4.12, incorporating some of the last bits > that have been brought into 4-STABLE... Unless someone wants to step forward with an offer to pay the sal

Re: Will 5.4 be an "Extended Life" release?

2005-04-17 Thread Brett Glass
At 07:42 PM 4/17/2005, Colin Percival wrote: >FreeBSD 4.11 will be supported until at least January 2007. Any chance of a 4.12, incorporating some of the last bits that have been brought into 4-STABLE... especially the security fixes? (Since this is the -security list, it seems like a good plac

Re: Will 5.4 be an "Extended Life" release?

2005-04-17 Thread Colin Percival
Danny Pansters wrote: > inevitably there will be some 5.X maintanance > release that will go on for a long time. Does anyone really doubt that? I > don't, also consider that 4.X will have to be phased out ASAP (or be prepared > to support 3 system compilers, I don't think so, no one would like t

Re: Will 5.4 be an "Extended Life" release?

2005-04-17 Thread Danny Pansters
On Monday 18 April 2005 03:05, Brett Glass wrote: > At 03:33 PM 4/12/2005, Clifton Royston wrote: > > If 5.4 is expected to be an extended-life branch, I would consider > >moving them up to 5.4 instead, to get a leap on current technology. > >Has that decision been made yet? > > I have a similar d

Re: Will 5.4 be an "Extended Life" release?

2005-04-17 Thread Colin Percival
Brett Glass wrote: > So, I am wondering if I should stick with 4.11, favoring fast single > CPUs over multiprocessor systems, for production machines -- and then > jump to 6.0 when it's released. Will security fixes be available long > enough for me to do this if need be? My personal recommendat

Re: Will 5.4 be an "Extended Life" release?

2005-04-17 Thread Brett Glass
At 03:33 PM 4/12/2005, Clifton Royston wrote: > If 5.4 is expected to be an extended-life branch, I would consider >moving them up to 5.4 instead, to get a leap on current technology. >Has that decision been made yet? I have a similar dilemma. Currently, I am building all production servers wit

IPSEC l2tpd and Windows shares problem

2005-04-17 Thread Vicky Shrestha
Dear all, I am running IPSEC and l2tpd in FreeBSD 4.9. I am able to connect from WindowsXP to this FreeBSD box . I am also able to ping the Hosts behind the IPSEC gateway, connect to internal ftp servers, browse intranet websites etc. However I am not able to browse network shares (windows a