[Fwbuilder-discussion] FWB won't load an IPv6 address?

[Karl A. <ka...@bi...>]

I am trying to set up a firewall for a linux box running IPv6. It
refused to compile, complaining about an invalid IP address. Sometimes
FWB gets confused, so I closed it and restarted it; now it will not load
the .fwb file at all, instead displaying this error:

   The program encountered error trying to load data file.
   The file has not been loaded. Error:
   Exception: Invalid IP address: '2402:b800:9:1::6'
   XML element : Management

Now the thing is, that IP address is just fine, nor did FWB complian
about it when I initially entered it. Not only that, it has compiled it
in the past. So what is going on here?

In case it is significant, this happened first when I was playing with
an IOS ruleset, but the error is now happening on an iptables compile.

The really irritating thing is that I can't load the file to get rid of
the offending address and try again.

Regards, K.

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