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On 04.10.2014 14:35, Alexander V. Chernikov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm going to merge projects/ipfw branch to HEAD in the middle of next
> week.
>
> What has changed:
>
> Main user-visible changes are related to tables:
>
> * Tables are now identified by names, not numbers. There can be up to
> 65k tables with up to 63-byte long names.
> * Tables are now set-aware (default off), so you can switch/move them
> atomically with rules.
> * More functionality is supported (swap, lock, limits, user-level
> lookup, batched add/del) by generic table code.
> * New table types are added (flow) so you can match multiple packet
> fields at once.
> * Ability to add different type of lookup algorithms for particular
> table type has been added.
> * New table algorithms are added (cidr:hash, iface:array, number:array
> and flow:hash) to make certain types of lookup more effective.
> * Table value are now capable of holding multiple data fields for
> different tablearg users
Are IPv6 addresses supported as tablearg (in fwd)?