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Re: Firewalling for IPv6



Hello Daniel,

On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 01:17:33 +1000
Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net> wrote:

> On 24 Apr 2005, Wesley J. Landaker wrote:
> > I have a few questions regarding the current state of
> > firewalling for IPv6 in Debian.
> >
> > Searching through packages and the web, the best I could find
> > is the existance of ip6tables, and a bunch of articles
> > talking about how Linux *would* support (implying that it
> > doesn't now(?)) IPv6 firewalling in the future (one site I
> > saw mentioned it would be in 2.6.11--I'm running 2.6.11.6).
> 
> Well, it has /some/ firewalling today.  The IPv6 support
> doesn't resemble a modern firewall system at all, though. :/
> 
> There is no connection tracking for IPv6 at the moment,

you can implement connection tracking for IPv6 with the patches
from usagi
ftp://ftp.linux-ipv6.org/pub/usagi/snap/split


Jörg

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