ipfw fwd doesn't handle ipv6 addresses

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Thu Nov 11 06:31:47 UTC 2010


On 11/10/2010 14:42, gumbo at bsdmail.org wrote:

> I'm running freebsd 7.2 and trying to find a way to forward a packet
> based on it's source address. The following command works fine for
> ipv4 addresses but fails for ipv6 addresses. ipfw add 101 fwd
> nextaddr ip from myaddr to any out This works fine if nextaddr and
> myaddr are ipv4 but fails to work if they are ipv6. Is this not yet
> supported or is there another way to accomplish the same thing ?

You might want to take a look at the ipfw man page, I think what you 
want is me6, not myaddr.


Doug

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