Re: Firewall

[Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>]

On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, extml@ndsoftware.net wrote:

> Can i use the firewall of Debian 2.2 for IPv6 ?
> Can you help me to install firewall and masquarading for a computer
> IPv4/IPv6, for IPv4, it's ok !

You can firewall IPv6 with 2.4.1 kernels, using the latest netfilter
support.

This is very limited, however, and does not support masquerading for
IPv4. It's not very complete for IPv6 yet.

IPv4, for what it's worth, works well for all uses.

        Daniel

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