[CentOS] Learning some sad things about the state of IPv6

[Matt Shields]

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 6:23 AM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote:
> Christopher Chan wrote:
>> The OP is not saying there is no ipv6 netfilter support. He said that
>> there is no ipv6 state netfilter module or something like that.
>
> In which case either you dont know what the OP is talking about, or he
> doesnt know what he asked :D
>
> ------------------
> [root at panic ~]# ip6tables -nL | wc -l
> 124
> [root at panic ~]# hostname
> panic.karan.org
> [root at panic ~]# lsof -i | grep IPv6  | wc -l
> 561
> [root at panic ~]# ip a l | grep net6
>    inet6 ::1/128 scope host
>    inet6 fe80::20d:61ff:fe80:7ce3/64 scope link
>    inet6 2001:4830:1600:13c::2/64 scope global
>    inet6 fe80::4224:e704/128 scope link
> [root at panic ~]# uname -r
> 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5
> -----------
>
> - K"Natively running ipv6 for a few years now"B
> --
> Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq

Exactly!!!  What he's complaining about is the lack of lazy-man's GUI
tool to configure ip6tables.

Are you absolutely sure that FWBuilder doesn't support IPv6?  Because
here there a release note
http://www.fwbuilder.org/docs/firewall_builder_release_notes.html
referring to ip6tables.


-- 
-matt