ipfw fwd doesn't handle ipv6 addresses

I'm running freebsd 7.2 and trying to find a way to forward a packet based on it's source address. The following command works fine for ipv4 addresses but fails for ipv6 addresses. ipfw add 101 fwd nextaddr ip from myaddr to any out This works fine if nextaddr and myaddr are ipv4 but fails to

Re: ipfw fwd doesn't handle ipv6 addresses

The problem is the "fwd" can't handle "nextaddr" if "nextaddr" resolves to an ipv6 address. It works fine if it resolves to an ipv4 address. Any other ideas ? Thanks, Rick -Original Message- From: Doug Barton To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Sent: Wed, Nov 10, 2010 10:31 pm Subject: Re

problems using gif tunnels

I am running two nodes with freebsd 7.2 release on both. node 1 has three gifs with tunnels configured on all. The first gif has a tunnel to node 2. Node two has one gif with a tunnel to node 1 configured. If I start a multicast ping from node 2 to the inner address of node 1 gif0, everyth

re: problems using gif tunnels

The following configuration should reproduce the problem. node01 ifconfig em1 alias 10.66.0.1/24 ifconfig gif0 create ifconfig gif0 tunnel 10.66.0.1 10.66.0.2 ifconfig gif0 10.7.223.1 10.7.223.2 netmask 255.255.255.255 ifconfig gif1 create ifconfig gif1 tunnel 10.66.0.1 10.66.0.3 ifconfig gif