From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6 IPV6 Busted Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 13:12:14 -0500 Message-ID: <42220D7E.3000104@pobox.com> References: <200502270928.44402.Info@Quantum-Sci.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com To: Quantum Scientific In-Reply-To: <200502270928.44402.Info@Quantum-Sci.com> Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Quantum Scientific wrote: > After a week of intensive research and full-time study, it's become clear that > IPV6 support, as it comes in standard Linux 2.6 kernels, is effectively > non-functional. Strange how I use this non-functional support every day. > I have a properly working firewall, but it appears there is no stateful > filtering nor connection tracking in the IPV6 stack. I send out an > So is there something I'm missing? Am I completely fscked-up when I say that > it doesn't work in practice, because there is no stateful packet filtering > nor connection tracking? Yes. IPv6 does not need NAT'ing. Everyone should have a global address. Connection tracking is not needed. Jeff