On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 06:13:23PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 01:02:10PM -0400, Roberto C. S?nchez wrote: > > I saw in Tom's recent changes to the roadmap [0] that there will be a > > version of Shorewall that supports IPv6. Personally, I am not too sure > > about the name Shorewall6. Though I know that some other projects have > > done something similar (like tcpdump and tcpdump6). However, I really > > have no idea what be a good name for the new IPv6-supporting Shorewall. > > I think that something like Shorewall-ng is probably not good. What > > will the name be when the next version of IP comes out? > > > > I am just thinking off the top of my head, so feel free to modify my > > idea or tell me that it is no good altogether. > > I can see no compelling reason why ipv6 support would require a > different piece of software - surely the right solution would be to > support both ipv4 and ipv6 at the same time. What's the motivation? > I am relatively certain that Tom's intent is that there will be a version of Shorewall that supports both IPv6 *and* IPv4. However, I don't think that his intent is to retrofit that support into the structure of the current releases. However, I may just misunderstand. The statement "First development release of Shorewall6, a Shorewall-like firewall for IPv6" makes it seem like it might in fact be a separate tool.
Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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