On 04/04/18 13:22, colony.three--- via Shorewall-users wrote: > On April 3, 2018 5:37 PM, Tom Eastep <teas...@shorewall.net> wrote: >> 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 > > Well search was not my friend in this case. > > And, having run Linux exclusively for 22 years, the brackets are new to me. Well, https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2732 is only 18 years old.
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