Ipv6 for the content provider

Randy McAnally rsm at fast-serv.com
Wed Jan 26 22:01:31 UTC 2011


On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:56:05 -0800, Charles N Wyble wrote

> > The only issue I've faced is RHEL/CentOS doesn't have stateful connection
> > tracking for IPv6 - so ip6tables is practically worthless.
> 
> Hmmmm. Interesting. I wonder if this is specific to the RedHat 
> kernel?

I've worked around it by compiling custom (newer) Kernels on systems that need
it.  Apparently support was added some time around 2.6.20, but of course RHEL5
is still in the dark ages of 2.6.18.

~Randy





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