IPv6 and IPFW

[Yar Tikhiy]

On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 04:38:21PM +0900, Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> >>>>> On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 17:34:35 -0800
> >>>>> Peter Losher <plosher at plosh.net> said:
> 
> plosher> [1  <text/plain; ISO-8859-1 (quoted-printable)>]
> plosher> Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote:
> 
> > The ipfw in 6-STABLE has an IPv6 awareness, but it is not enabled as
> > far as you use ipfw as a KLD module.  If ipfw is compiled into kernel,
> > ipfw does filterling an IPv6 as well.
> 
> plosher> Will this change in 6.1, or will we have to wait for ip6fw to be
> plosher> completly removed before the module will support v6 by default? (You
> plosher> would have to admit that it's somewhat confusing the way it is now)
> 
> It was already MFC'ed into RELENG_6.  So, ipfw.ko obeys the kernel
> config, now.

Please note here that ipfw.ko obeys INET6 and IPSEC options, but
not IPFIREWALL_* ones yet.  The latter still are to be fixed for
the module build.

-- 
Yar