On Wed, 12 Dec 2012, David Sommerseth wrote:

> On 12/12/12 10:29, Tomas Macek wrote:
>> Hello, I don't know where exactly should I ask for this, but this list
>> seems to be suitable for it.
>>
>> We found out, that ipset kernel module is included in SL kernels since
>> 2012-06-12 from version 2.6.32-168 and the utilities are available in
>> 'sl' repo in 6.3 but not in older 6.x versions.
>>
>> Is it possible to include the ipset package into all the SL 6.0+
>> distributions the same way is it is in 6.3? Or where should I place my
>> with?
>
> It seems ipset was first enabled in RHEL 6.2, so I wouldn't expect SL to
> change from that regime.
>
> <https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html-single/6.2_Release_Notes/index.html>
>
> Even though the kernel support may have been available at an earlier
> release point, it might just as well have been a tech-preview of that
> feature - which are not officially supported by TUV.
>
> So I'd rather recommend you to upgrade your installations.  When it is
> fully available, as in 6.2, it is first at that point really considered
> ready for production.
>

The server is too important to be upgraded/reinstalled online. When 
upgrade will be needed, it will be directly replaced by another machine - 
no software upgrade. It's much 
more simple to just upgrade the kernel and install ipset package than to 
upgrade whole machine from one distro verion to another. This is why I 
would really 
appreciate the ipset package for older distro versions.

Regards, Tomas