[135569] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ipv6 for the content provider
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy McAnally)
Wed Jan 26 17:02:42 2011
From: "Randy McAnally" <rsm@fast-serv.com>
To: Charles N Wyble <charles@knownelement.com>,nanog@nanog.org
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:01:31 -0500
In-Reply-To: <4D409875.2060207@knownelement.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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
