Re: Firewalling IPv6 - an easy way?

[Juliusz Chroboczek <Juliusz.Chroboczek@pps.jussieu.fr>]

>> IPv6 under 2.6.21 is buggy (at least the upstream version, don't know
>> about the Debian kernel).  Please use 2.6.20 or 2.6.22, both seem to
>> be fine.

> It is not that simple. Upstream kernel versions have 4 numbers, but
> Debian kernel versions use only the first 3 numbers.
[..]
> So I believe that a 2.6.20 Debian kernel may contain the bug and
> a 2.6.21 Debian kernel may not, depending on the 4th-number of the
> upstream version there were built from.

I stand corrected.

In case anyone needs help with chosing a kernel version, all I can say
is that, we have been happily running IPv6 on a mixture of upstream
2.6.22rcx, for various values of x, and Debian's 2.6.18-y, for various
values of y, with no apparent problems.

                                        Juliusz