[100591] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 firewall support
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Lockhart)
Sat Oct 27 09:49:39 2007
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 14:47:47 +0100
From: Simon Lockhart <simon@slimey.org>
To: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org>
Cc: michael.dillon@bt.com, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <472327C1.3010105@spaghetti.zurich.ibm.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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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