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

[Vadim K. ✎ <va...@vk...>]

I've got the file, thank you.

This is not your error, this is my error. Your firewall has an  
interface that is marked as management interface but it only has ipv6  
address. I'll fix.

--vk



On Feb 17, 2009, at 12:41 AM, Karl Auer wrote:

> 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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