Re: IPv6 support for tables in ipfw?

Kevin Oberman wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 11:02:22 -0700
>> From: Julian Elischer <julian_at_elischer.org>
>>
>> Kevin Oberman wrote:
>>> At this time the use of tables in ipfw is limited to IPv4. Is anyone
>>> looking at adding IPv6 address capability?
>>
>> I am 
>> but it's not 'soon' on my list.
> 
> I am on travel for a couple of weeks, so I may try and get a start on
> this while at airports or on planes.
> 
> Tables are very useful for allowing an IDS set up blocks on the
> fly. Right now I am limited to a new rule for every block and that is
> not very portable (since I don't want to step on existing rules) and
> very messy since, except for the address, all of the rules are
> identical.

yeah, exactly.. "me too".



> I'm using tables right now for V4, but I really need to have v6 support
> soon. I'm just not real sure what 'soon' is. I hope it's different from
> yours.