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From: Frederic Beck <frederic.beck@loria.fr>
Subject: Re: Problem with state match for ip6tables
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:56:31 +0100
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> > root@trunks:~/firewalling/iptables
> > % ip6tables -A FORWARD  -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
> > ip6tables: Unknown error 4294967295
> 
> I see the same problem with gentoo kernel 2.6.15-r2 and iptables
> 1.3.5, except that I also add the protocol 
> 
> # ip6tables -I INPUT 1 -p tcp -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j
> ACCEPT ip6tables: Unknown error 4294967295
> 
> strace shows this prior to the error
> 
> socket(PF_INET6, SOCK_RAW, IPPROTO_RAW) = 3
> getsockopt(3, SOL_IPV6, 0x40 /* IPV6_??? */,
> "filter\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., [84]) = 0
> getsockopt(3, SOL_IPV6, 0x41 /* IPV6_??? */,
> "filter\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., [2328]) =
> 0 setsockopt(3, SOL_IPV6, 0x40 /* IPV6_??? */,
> "filter\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 2620) =
> -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) write(2, "ip6tables: Unknown
> error 4294967"..., 36ip6tables: Unknown error 4294967295 ) = 36

I tried on several distributions (debian, fedora) and kernel versions
(2.6.14, 2.6.8), but i get each time the same error.

Is this a known bug ?  I couldn't find it in netfilter's bugzilla

Fred