Filtering IPv6 with ipfw or ip6fw

[Oliver Fromme]

Hi,

I'm a little bit confused about the purpose of ip6fw(8).  The
manual page suggests that the standard ipfw(8) supports both
IPv4 and IPv6, so why is there a seperate ip6fw?  Can it do
anything that ipfw can't do?

Best regards
   Oliver

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