On 04/03/2018 05:29 PM, colony.three--- via Shorewall-users wrote:
> I'm trying to convert to IPV6 but there's a little problem with the
> hosts file on the IPSec gateway.
> 
> shorewall6 doesn't like any combination of IP ::0.  As in:
> vpn             eth0:::0
> 
> I typed out all the zeroes, used all colons, but I could not decrypt
> what it wants.
> 

As clearly described at
http://www.shorewall.org/configuration_file_basics.htm#idm429, IPv6
addresses must be enclosed in "[...]" in most contexts. This is a
ubiquitous *nix convention.

-Tom
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