[135992] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ipv6 for the content provider
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Blake Hudson)
Mon Jan 31 12:53:25 2011
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 11:53:22 -0600
From: Blake Hudson <blake@ispn.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4D46F5F2.2090202@viagenie.ca>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Ipv6 for the content provider
From: Simon Perreault <simon.perreault@viagenie.ca>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Monday, January 31, 2011 11:48:34 AM
> On 2011-01-31 12:38, Blake Hudson wrote:
>> I was under the impression that the later versions of 5 (e.g. 5.5, 5.6)
>> had backported stateful connection tracking. Has anyone tested recently?
> The command
>
> # ip6tables -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
>
> works on CentOS 5.5. And there's no documentation for it in "man
> ip6tables". So it fits the backport hypothesis...
>
> Simon
I guess the next question is whether or not it actually works correctly....