Re: [Shorewall-devel] Shorewall and IPV6

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

Paul Gear wrote:
> 
> There is going to be a lot of pain in the upgrade to IPv6 anyway - i
> think preparing people by getting them used to the fact that colon can't
> be a separator any more is a "good thing".
> 
> 

Please try a little exercise -- open up a copy of a complex rules file
and experiment with different separators (other than ":") -- find any
you like? I haven't :-(

Note that we only have to change the separator in columns that can
potentially contain an address.

-Tom
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