IPv6 firewall support

Sat Oct 27 13:47:47 UTC 2007

On Sat Oct 27, 2007 at 01:57:53PM +0200, Jeroen Massar wrote:
> >> Cisco ASA (formerly PIX) supports IPv6 in version 7.0 and up.

> > Have they actually made it useable yet? Last time I looked, if you had a
> > pair of PIX in failover mode, you couldn't use IPv6 - it put the same IP
> > on both firewalls at the same time, along with a message saying IPv6 wasn't
> > supported in standby mode.

> I know a network where they use Cisco PIX's in failover mode, there was
> indeed some issue with it at one point, but they now seem to work fine
> since, I think, at least about 2 years already.

Cool - I've got a pair of PIXen that I need to put live soon, so I'll test 
the latest software on them to see if it has improved.

Simon
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