Matt Shields wrote:
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 6:23 AM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Christopher Chan wrote:
The OP is not saying there is no ipv6 netfilter support. He said that
there is no ipv6 state netfilter module or something like that.
In which case either you dont know what the OP is talking about, or he
doesnt know what he asked :D
Exactly!!! What he's complaining about is the lack of lazy-man's GUI
tool to configure ip6tables.
Not so much as complaining, but looking at easy-of-use and time allocation.
I have done iptables by hand and have used a few tools. One thing I like
about the tools I have found helpful is they have been good 'quick
starts' for learning what to do by hand!
But my source is:
http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ecai6-2007/slides/2007-ECAI6-Status-IPv6-Firewalling-PeterBieringer-Talk.pdf
Peter, who has been involved with IPv6 for a long time, covers NetFilter
on slide 8 and claims stateful support added in 2.6.20. Elsewhere I
found a reference that RHel would get this end-of-year 2008, and Fedora
Core 6 has it now. I looked in my /boot and saw that Centos is using
2.6.18, and I concluded from all this that I would have to work with FC6
for the next half year. Seems this conclusion is mis-informed if this
NetFilter feature got backported already....
Are you absolutely sure that FWBuilder doesn't support IPv6? Because
here there a release note
http://www.fwbuilder.org/docs/firewall_builder_release_notes.html
referring to ip6tables.
I also saw that FWBuilder supports IPv6. But if the kernel only supports
stateless, then that is all you can do with FWBuider, I would think. My
one review of FWBuilder was that it was more than I needed at the time
and Shorewall would handle my needs for my one VoIP firewall. Well I
learned a lot using Shorewall. And Shorewall does NOT have IPv6 support,
I asked on their list.
So now I go and build a box and see if I got enough to get the job done.
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