Yes, that's it. We deleted the file from our 3140's prior to the 4.6.1 
upgrade, and had no trouble.

-Mike


On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Bruce Hodge wrote:

> Thanks Mike,
> That makes my go forward plan a little clearer.
> Is the bug you are talking about the NIC bug cscv52402  as described in the 
> release notes on 4.6.1
> "
> If it returns nothing, then your system will not be affected.
>
> % rpm -qa | grep "tg3"
>
> *Step 2 *If your system is affected, simply remove a file from /boot before 
> you run the upgrade to avoid this defect (or remove the file and re-run the 
> upgrade):
>
> % rm /boot/2.6.11-perfigo-sp9
>
> % cd /store/cca_upgrade-4.6.x
>
> % ./UPGRADE.sh
> "
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
>
> Mike Diggins wrote:
>> On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Bruce Hodge wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> I am going to upgrade my NAC 3140 appliances from 4.1.3 to 4.7.2 and I 
>>> just wanted to get some pointers, hints and traps for young players.
>>> I have been led to believe that the best option is to upgrade to 4.6.1 
>>> first and then upgrade to 4.7.2.
>> 
>> You can't upgrade directly from 4.1.3 to 4.7.2. We went from 4.1.6 to 
>> 4.6.1, then to 4.7.2 (all during the same maintenance window). No problem 
>> with the upgrades (both 3140 and 3350 hardware). Make note of a possible 
>> bug that affects the upgrade using the 3140 hardware. The fix is simple, 
>> you just have to delete a file from /boot prior to upgrading. It's 
>> documented in the upgrade documenation.
>> 
>> 
>>> The thing that I am really unsure about is the loss of the perfigo 
>>> certificates , how that effects the upgrade process, and what is the best 
>>> process to avoid having a busted NAC?
>> 
>> We use a Perfigo certificate on the CAM, and a Verisign Cert on the two 
>> CAS. All were intact and functional after the upgrade although there were 
>> some changes to managing certificates going to 4.1.6. You need to be sure 
>> that your CAM has the Root and Intermediate certificate from the CAS cert 
>> installed, and vica versa.
>> 
>> -Mike
>
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