Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:42:36 +0200 From: Lars Eggert <lars.eggert@nokia.com> To: gumbo@bsdmail.org Cc: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ipfw "fwd" command fails using ipv6 addresses Message-ID: <459A620A-9F67-40FE-A0A4-E390EE39F4CC@nokia.com> In-Reply-To: <8CD563AEEF556DE-1A54-477C@web-mmc-m01.sysops.aol.com> References: <8CD563AEEF556DE-1A54-477C@web-mmc-m01.sysops.aol.com>
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--Apple-Mail-4-553827658 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On 2010-11-19, at 21:56, gumbo@bsdmail.org wrote: > 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 resolve to ipv6. > Is this not yet supported or is there another way to accomplish the = same thing ? I ran into the same issue a few months ago, and the answer was that IPv6 = support in ipfw is generally still not on par with IPv4. So yes, this is = known. (I do think that this lack of IPv6 features is a problem. But FreeBSD is = a volunteer effort, and I can't commit any of my own cycles to fixing = this so I really don't have a right to complain either.) Lars= --Apple-Mail-4-553827658--
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