Yes, right, I do also believe the filter will work. What I'd like to avoid is the potential ipv6 connections to eth0, eth1, br0, etc, should ip6tables be somehow offline or misconfigured. Bob McDowell Network/Security Engineer Cox HealthPlans -----Original Message----- From: Nikolay S. [mailto:nowhere@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 9:35 AM To: Bob McDowell Cc: netfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [Fwd: RE: ipv6 link local address] Sorry again :) You will not loose ability to filter bridged frames with ip6tables. ÿô.nÇ·®+%˱é¥wÿº{.nÇ·§z××þ)íèjg¬±¨¶Ýjÿ¾«þG«é¸¢·¦j:+v¨wèm¶ÿþø®w¥þ࣢·hâÿÙ