From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 22 16:00:11 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C45A16A41A for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:00:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [83.120.8.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D4C513C494 for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:00:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l9MFSstt080147; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:29:01 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l9MFSsM4080146; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:28:54 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:28:54 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200710221528.l9MFSsM4080146@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-questions User-Agent: tin/1.8.3-20070201 ("Scotasay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/6.2-STABLE-20070808 (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.2 (lurza.secnetix.de [127.0.0.1]); Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:29:04 +0200 (CEST) Cc: Subject: Filtering IPv6 with ipfw or ip6fw X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:00:11 -0000 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 -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "Whatever happened to the days when hacking started at the cerebral cortex, and not at the keyboard?" -- Sid on userfriendly.org by Illiad, 2007-06-20