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and subject line Re: Bug#652570: shorewall6: Spurious "ICMP not permitted in an
IPv6 configuration"
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regarding shorewall6: Spurious "ICMP not permitted in an IPv6 configuration"
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Package: shorewall6
Version: 4.4.11.6-1
Severity: normal
Despite what the documentation says, the keyword "icmp" (or a variant
such as "icmp6" or "icmpv6") is not recognized in rules:
ERROR: ICMP not permitted in an IPv6 configuration : /etc/shorewall6/rules
(line 462)
You have to use the numeric value of the protocol, 58.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.3
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages shorewall6 depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.36.1 Debian configuration management sy
ii iproute 20100519-3 networking and traffic control too
ii iptables 1.4.8-3 administration tools for packet fi
ii libio-socket-inet6-perl 2.65-1.1 Object interface for AF_INET6 doma
ii shorewall 4.4.11.6-3 Shoreline Firewall, netfilter conf
shorewall6 recommends no packages.
Versions of packages shorewall6 suggests:
ii linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 [lin 2.6.32-39 Linux 2.6.32 for modern PCs
ii make 3.81-8 An utility for Directing compilati
pn shorewall-doc <none> (no description available)
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/shorewall6 changed:
startup=1
OPTIONS=""
-- debconf information:
shorewall6/major_release:
shorewall6/dont_restart:
shorewall6/invalid_config:
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--- Begin Message ---
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 06:45:56PM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> Package: shorewall6
> Version: 4.4.11.6-1
> Severity: normal
>
>
> Despite what the documentation says, the keyword "icmp" (or a variant
> such as "icmp6" or "icmpv6") is not recognized in rules:
>
> ERROR: ICMP not permitted in an IPv6 configuration : /etc/shorewall6/rules
> (line 462)
>
> You have to use the numeric value of the protocol, 58.
>
This is an artifact of this entry in /etc/protocols:
ipv6-icmp 58 IPv6-ICMP # ICMP for IPv6
You can use either "58" or "ipv6-icmp".
Regards,
-Roberto
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