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Old 3rd August 2010
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Originally Posted by BSDfan666 View Post
Doing incremental upgrades like that is very tedious, but, releases are made every 6 months so if one leaves a system to stagnate for several releases, they end up making it harder to upgrade.

A fresh installation would probably be the best route to take, but, that won't preserve any changes made to the system.

Maintaining a system that was configured by someone else is a enormous job if you have no familiarity with the system, or what services it was providing for your employers network.. I do hope for your sake that the previous maintainer left behind lots of documentation, so you can replicate the configuration.

4.8 will be released soon, in a few months, so hopefully this will give you time to become familiar with this system, and OpenBSD in particular, hopefully making this migration a lot less painful in the future, just remember to keep it regularly maintained and upgraded.


There is no documentation to speak of unfortunately so this isn't going to be a very fun process. I think I might just go through the tedious process of updating from 4.3 > 4.4 > ... > 4.8.

I would rather do that than risk breaking something that is critical as this is a production firewall.

IT professionals that don't properly document things are very frustrating. Sure you're adding job security, but you're also preventing yourself from getting promoted or taking a vacation.

Oh well, what can you do...
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