CentOS

You just need to have the card installed and then either rebuild the initramfs for the latest kernel or yum reinstall it (though to do that I think you have to be running one of the other kernels as I don't think it lets you reinstall the running one). So either dracut -f --kver=$(uname -r) (rebuild...

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Why do you have repos pointing at vault.centos.org? That's where old CentOS versions go to die.

I'm pretty sure that if you google for tools to launch a syn flood attack you will find something that can do it. We were "lucky" that someone decided to test it for us...

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/mitigate ... nux-7-beta works for me.

I'd go straight to 9 unless there is a reason not to. And I'd bypass Stream entirely and go Rocky/Alma.

It'll only sync with the host if you've told it to. Has the machine been "power cycled" since the VMWare setting was set?

CentOS Stream 8 is not EOL until 2024.

Since CentOS 7 is built from the sources for RHEL 7, any security bug that you might find should also be present in RHEL 7 so the best place you can report problems is using the Red Hat security@redhat.com email address or by raising a private bugzilla.redhat.com entry.

That's been built and pushed to the public repos so it should be hitting a mirror near you soon.

Thanks for spotting it.