turning off IPv6

Felipe Alfaro Solana felipe.alfaro at gmail.com
Tue Jul 4 07:57:24 UTC 2006


>>>  Any particular reason why you don't want ipv6 active?
>>  Can you elaborate, or point me somewhere with more information?
>  sure.  it is a protocol still under development so that should raise some
> hairs from a security standpoint right there.

The main problem with IPv6 is that most firewalls still don't cope
well with it, and some platforms' firewalls ignore IPv6 completely.
BTW, Linux firewall still doesn't support statefull inspection, which
makes it somewhat limited.




More information about the ubuntu-users mailing list