Re: -p icmp in IPv6 does not work

["Andrew S. Haydon" <andrew_s_haydon@xxxxxxxxx>]

To use -p icmpv6 may be helpful.

Marcin Kaminski wrote:

> Hi
> I've tried to filter out some ICMPv6, but -p icmp does not seem to work.
> ip6tables -A OUTPUT -p icmp -j DROP
> is doing nothing. It looks like -p icmp matches nothing, filtering with
> other rules (-s etc) works pretty well.
> Of course any other jump (f.e. LOG) does nothing too with -p icmp.
> I've tested it on Linux 2.4.20 from PLD and 2.4.19 from SuSe.
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> What is wrong?
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