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Shorewall 4.2.4‏ Released with IPv6 Support

Linux based Firewall that Support IPv6. Shorewall Team just announced the release of Shorewall 4.2.4 Which support IPv6 on any standard Linux based system. Shorewall Website is h3r3 Announcement is below" The Shorewall Team is pleased to announce the release of Shorewall 4.2.4 including IPv6 support. Minimun system requirements for taking advantage of IPv6 support: - Kernel 2.6.25 or later. - iptables 1.4.0 or later with 1.4.1 strongly recommended. - Perl 5.10 if you wish to use DNS names in your IPv6 config files. In that case you will also have to install Perl Socket6 support. Two new packages are included: a) Shorewall6 - analagous to Shorewall-common but handles IPv6 rather than IPv4. b) Shorewall6-lite - analagous to Shorewall-lite but handles IPv6 rather than IPv4. The packages store their configurations in /etc/shorewall6/ and /etc/shorewall6-lite/ respectively. The fact that the packages are separate from their IPv4 counterparts means that you control IPv4 and IPv6...