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This article is from the Security Patches FAQ, by Christopher Klaus cklaus@iss.net with numerous contributions by
others.
2 - AIX (Security Patches)
Fixdist is a X Windows front end to the AIX PTF (Patch) Database. Fixdist
package available at ftp:aix.boulder.ibm.com
Fixdist requirements:
Software:
o AIX for RISC System/6000 Version 3.2.4 or above.
o AIX TCPIP Facilities (bosnet.tcpip.obj)
o AIXwindows 1.2.0 (X11R4) or AIXwindows 1.2.3 (X11R5).
Connection Requirements
o The fixdist utility communicates to the ftp server using anonymous
ftp. There is no mail transport or Telnet requirement. The server
is currently available only on the Internet. If you are able to
download the utility, you are fully enabled use fixdist.
Fixdist does not "install" any PTFs onto your system. It just transfers
the fixes to a target directory on your RISC System/6000.
The AIX support line is at
http://aix.boulder.ibm.com/pbin-usa/getobj.pl?/pdocs-usa/public.html/
From that page, you can link to a forms-based keyword search, which you
can use to query with the terms "aix" and "security". The direct link
for the keyword search is:
http://aix.boulder.ibm.com/pbin-usa/pub_search.pl
To turn off IP Forwarding and Source Routing, add the following to
/etc/rc.net:
/usr/sbin/no -o ipforwarding=0
/usr/sbin/no -o ipsendredirects=0
/usr/sbin/no -o nonlocsrcroute=0
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