If you use some parameters, links on your filesystem, you can use the same 
rules, policy, ... for IPv4 and IPv6! It is quite handy, if you want to treat 
them the same :-)

Greetz!
Erwin


On Saturday 27 March 2010, Tom Eastep wrote:
> Selvam Matthys wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I was wondering if there was a quickstart guide for implementing ipv6
> > and Shorewall6? I configured my ipv6 on my interface. installed
> > Shorewall6 and enabled ipv6 in the shorewall.conf file. Is this
> > dangerous? I mean I didn't setup anything else. Or is the default
> > behavior to block all.
> 
> Shorewall6 is very similar to Shorewall. Until you configure and start it,
> it does nothing.
> 
> It's configuration directory is /etc/shorewall6. Shorewall6 includes sample
> configurations just like the base product does.  The biggest difference in
> configuration is that IPv6's large address space and auto-configuration
> features make NAT unnecessary.
> 
> There is no quickstart guide but there are a couple of articles about
> Shorewall6:
> 
>       http://www.shorewall.net/IPv6Support.html
>       http://www.shorewall.net/6to4.htm#FeetWet
> 
> I suggest that you read them in that order.
> 
> -Tom

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