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Date:      Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:28:54 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Filtering IPv6 with ipfw or ip6fw
Message-ID:  <200710221528.l9MFSsM4080146@lurza.secnetix.de>

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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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