Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 07:12:03AM -0700, Tom Eastep wrote: >>>> I'm currently running a combined IPv4/IPv6 router that is using NAT for >>>> IPv4 and straight routing for IPv6. I'm using Shorewall (iptables) for >>>> the IPv4 firewall and I'm using ip6tables for the IPv6 firewall (until I >>>> get Shorewall6 running) >>> Interesting - so how do you handle traffic moving between the ipv4 and >>> ipv6 networks? >> I don't -- the two networks are completely parallel. Each local host has >> both an IPv4 address and an IPv6 address. > > I find it difficult to see what benefit there is in deploying ipv6 if > you still have to allocate an ipv4 address for every host, and keep > maintaining the ipv4 network like you always have done.
Well I'm not here to sell IPv6. I've got my hands full just trying to make a Shorewall-like firewall that can deal with it. -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool Shoreline, \ http://shorewall.net Washington USA \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key \ https://lists.shorewall.net/teastep.pgp.key
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