Re: netfilter IPv6 support

[Thomas Zehetbauer <thomasz@hostmaster.org>]

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On Don, 2004-08-26 at 13:00 -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> Stateful netfilter is not there because it's a total waste
> to completely duplicate all of the connection tracking et al.
> code into ipv6 counterparts when %80 of the code is roughly
> the same.  People are working on a consolidation of these
> things so that there is no code duplication but it is a lot
> of work and there are bigger fires to put out at the moment.

Of course it's a waste to duplicate the code but as far as I remember
the status of netfilter for IPv6 has not changed for almost a year. As
said there is still not even the basic REJECT target available.

Tom

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