Re: [Shorewall-devel] Shorewall and IPV6

[Tom E. <te...@sh...>]

On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 10:48 -0200, Eduardo Ferreira wrote:

> Tom, may be we should have a intermediate version where all these ":"
> separators go away as a preparatory for ipv6.   
> 
> just my 2¢...

The problem is that many people don't read release notes -- they install
version 1.2 of some software package then three years later upgrade
straight to version 27.3 without reading a word. While one can argue
that this is their problem, not ours, it increases our support load
none-the-less.

Also, IPV6 adoption is not very rapid -- making people change their
configurations when it gains them nothing is bad practice.

We went through some of these discussions when Eric was creating 6wall;
his original idea was to modify Shorewall for IPV6 but I talked him out
of it (wasn't too hard after he'd tried it :-) )

> 
> And above all, what is the schedule to IPV6? 
> 

I'll start work on it after 2.2.0 is released (probably next month).
I've ordered a couple of books about IPV6 which I will need to digest
before I do anything with code. I would expect final release to be about
this time next year.

-Tom
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