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

Fri May 30 12:49:57 UTC 2008
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

Karanbir Singh 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

What he originally said was that this needed kernel 2.6.20 or newer.  Is 
this one of the feature backports into the enterprise kernel that Centos 
inherits?

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