ip6fw byte reporting error in v6

Andrey V. Elsukov bu7cher at yandex.ru
Wed Aug 8 00:57:44 PDT 2007


Pekka Savola wrote:
> Fiddling around with ipfw, I noticed that 'ip6fw -ta l', under byte 
> reports, does not include the base IPv6 header in the length calculation 
> (hmm.. I wonder how it would calculate the length of extension-header 
> chained packet).
> 
> IPv4 byte statistics, on the other hand, include the IPv4 header bytes.
> 
> Is this a known problem?  Is it a more general BSD kernel problem?

Probably, you should use ipfw(8) instead of ip6fw(8). ip6fw was 
removed and it's functional moved into ipfw(8).

-- 
WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov


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