Then, I assume, it would be appropriate to tell this
in the man pages or at least somewhere (else than only in
PR database) that people don't wonder why there is the
-6 switch that _seems_ to work but the rules that are
given in ipf6.conf are not applied! Dangerous..

I'll go and compile myself an IPv4 only kernel...

On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 itojun@iijlab.net wrote:

> >I think ipfilter doens't work in the 1.5 branch; and from a recent PR it seems
> >it's even not there in -current.
> >Darren or Itojun could confirm this
>
> 	the PR is talking about 1.5 branch.
>
> 	for 1.5 branch, IPv6 filtering is not supported (there's two-line code
> 	to turn this portion off).  see ipf(8) as well.
>
> 	on current, IPv6 filtering code is enabled (the two-line code is not
> 	there), however, we need to run torture tests before we can be sure
> 	it works right.
>
> itojun
>

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