Unified rc.firewall ipfw me/me6 issue

Hajimu UMEMOTO ume at freebsd.org
Sat Jan 9 19:30:32 UTC 2010


Hi,

>>>>> On Sat, 2 Jan 2010 20:36:45 -0500
>>>>> David Horn <dhorn2000 at gmail.com> said:

dhorn2000> On a separate note, you may want to consider adding an explicit
dhorn2000> "allow" in the default rc.firewall to support dhcpv6-client requests.
dhorn2000> (at least in client case, but potentially workstation as well)

Good catch!  The client type firewall rule allows DHCP, implicitly.
I've committed to allow DHCPv6 as well for the client type firewall.
Since the workstation type firewall rule explicitly allows DHCP, we
have the rule to allow DHCPv6 already.

Sincerely,

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