Re: [Shorewall-users] [Shorewall-announce] Shorewall and IPv6 -- 4.2.4-RC1

[Alexander W. <ale...@ad...>]

Hi Guys,

seems that the shorewall6 packages are missing in the RC1 folder.

Alex

On Freitag 19 Dezember 2008, Tom Eastep wrote:
> As we announced earlier, although our original plan was to release IPv6
> support late next year in Shorewall 4.4, by taking a different approach
> we have been able to produce the code much sooner and with less risk to
> existing IPv4 users.
>
> As a consequence, we are happy to announce Shorewall-4.2.4-RC1 which
> includes IPv6 support. The changes to Shorewall-perl to support IPv6,
> while extensive, were very straight forward and we believe that the
> chance of breaking existing IPv4 configurations is small. Nevertheless,
> We are taking a cautious approach by starting with a release candidate.
>
> We urge existing Shorewall-perl users to try the release candidate and
> let us know if we broke anything. We also encourage those of you who
> have been clambering for IPv6 support in Shorewall to give the RC a try.
>
> The code may be downloaded from
> /pub/shorewall/development/4.2/shorewall-4.2.4-RC1 at your favorite
> Shorewall download site (sorry -- the release candidate is not available
> from Sourceforge).
>
> There is an overview document at
> http://www.shorewall.net/IPv6Support.html and IPv6 manpages may be found
> at http://www.shorewall.net/Manpages6.html.
>
> -Tom