Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 11:55:15 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPv6 support for tables in ipfw? Message-ID: <47068893.1080303@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20071005183124.3619C4500E@ptavv.es.net> References: <20071005183124.3619C4500E@ptavv.es.net>
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Kevin Oberman wrote: >> Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 11:02:22 -0700 >> From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> >> >> Kevin Oberman wrote: >>> At this time the use of tables in ipfw is limited to IPv4. Is anyone >>> looking at adding IPv6 address capability? >> >> I am >> but it's not 'soon' on my list. > > I am on travel for a couple of weeks, so I may try and get a start on > this while at airports or on planes. > > Tables are very useful for allowing an IDS set up blocks on the > fly. Right now I am limited to a new rule for every block and that is > not very portable (since I don't want to step on existing rules) and > very messy since, except for the address, all of the rules are > identical. yeah, exactly.. "me too". > I'm using tables right now for V4, but I really need to have v6 support > soon. I'm just not real sure what 'soon' is. I hope it's different from > yours.
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