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Enable per-UID network routing like iptables

In most if not all Linux distributions, iptables is used for network routing. IPTables enables routing per UID like so: sudo ip rule add uidrange 1001-1001 table user_wlp sudo ip route add default via 192.168.53.14 table user_wlp This will set the...
about 1 month ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Change the entstat 'Adapter Data Rate' to reflect the actual / current negotiated link speed vs the maximum speed.

Example: PCIe3 2 PORT 25/10/1 Gb NIC&ROCE SFP28 ADAPTER The entstat 'adapter data rate' attribute is hardcoded to report the maximum data rate for the adapter regardless of the actual link speed. This is can be misleading and not helpful when ...
20 days ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Mitigate security risk VOLATILE TE - tsd entries after efix installation

Why is this necessary? After applying an efix (for example security fixes) the TE (Trusted Execution) tsd.dat is modified and stanza are replace with keyword VOLATILE. This happens for the replaced binaries (executables) and libraries, that were r...
5 months ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

Request for the additional parameter/function for detaching DDM from LVM Mirror

・Requested function: - I want to request a timeout parameter to enable users to adjust IO timeout to detach each hdisk from LVM Mirror configuration. - I want to request a function that enables a detachment of a DDM under LVM Mirror, in case its I...
almost 2 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

lsdev should show the correct storage type

lsdev shows for an FS9500 storage (and also other newer storages) still "IBM 2076 FC disk", which is very old and missleading. The command should give the correct type, for example 4666 for an FS9500 storage. $ lsdev -Cl hdisk420hdisk420 Available...
10 months ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

rpm exits 0 even if the scriptlets exit with error.

starting with version 4.6 rpm exits 0 even if the scriptlets (all but %pre and %preun) exit with error. IMHO this breaks legacy rpm behaviour (i.e. pre version 4.6) and leads to misunderstandings since a simple test on the rpm exit code is not rel...
4 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted
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AIX secldapclntd and LDAP load module should successfully recognize and interpret the FreeIPA time stamp format

FreeIPA LDAP server, also know as Red Hat Identity Management, software stores password change time stamps in this format: krbLastPwdChange: 20200929123058Z That appears to be a YYYMMDDhhmmss format. AIX's secldapclntd LDAP client and LDAP load mo...
about 4 years ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

Add secure DNS resolution to AIX

Currently, the AIX DNS resolver is not secure, and AIX will accept any tampered response as valid. With the current AIX, the only way to have secure resolution is to configure a local bind. Add a DNSSEC resolver option that validates DNSSEC respon...
about 2 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Enhance lsmpio showing both storages in an policy-based HA environment (mirroring)

In an AIX VM using a FS9500 environment with policy-based HA it is only possible with lsmpio to see the primary storage node of the mirroring relation in the FS9500. It should be possible to see both storages of that relation. This is especially i...
10 months ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Implement IO tuning parameter value for 'dk_closed_path_recovery=1' by default

Enable 'health_check' command to run on paths to disks, which are not open and active in the kernel, by default as to allow automatic recovery.
about 1 year ago in AIX 2 Submitted

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