Re: Learning some sad things about the state of IPv6

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On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 10:53 PM, Matt Shields <mattboston@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:43 PM, Christopher Chan
<christopher@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>
>> We have kernel support for IPv6 in Centos, but not stateful firewall
>> support.
>>
>> That requires at least the 2.6.20 kernel, which means Fedora Core 6 or
>> some other Linux distro.
>>
>> None of the various free Linux firewalls have IPv6 support.  Supposedly
>> FWBuilder can manage Netfilters for a Linux Kernel, but that seems to be the
>> extent of it.
>>
>> More sad facts as I uncover them.....
>
> Just use openbsd. We cannot expect Linux to rule everything. Use what best
> fits the job.

Not sure about FC6, but in both CentOS 4 & 5 there is an ip6tables.  I
haven't used it, but I'm assuming that you can build rules just like
you do with iptables.

--
-matt
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My dd-wrt web page has a IPv6 checkbox, but don't know what it does.  i am shunning IPv6 bc securing the private side of a NAT is hard enough.  Securing IPv6 seems much much much tougher.
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