Per Jessen wrote:
Carl Hartung wrote:
Glad it worked out, Paul, but your thanks really must go to Joachim, Darryl and Michael. It's an elegant, effective and straightforward solution... that's why I saved it.
Carl et al - I'd be interested to know why IPv6 is causing a problem for you?
It caused problems in a mixed environment with other systems (Windows, Solaris, and AIX). There clients tried to access servers via IPv6 even though the server software didn't listen there, waiting for timeouts until the IPv4 connection was tried. Instead of figuring out why that is so, it was easier to discard it all together. It might work today, as IPv6 support is supposed to be better -- but I don't know since no trigger occured to me to revise that decision: I haven't experienced a situation where IPv6 would be an advantage to my current setup. In addition, I don't want IPv6 on my firewall or on any host in my DMZ. First, for principle reasons, since on my firewall and on DMZ hosts nothing is installed or activated that is not needed. Second, because iptables and IPv6 don't work as well together (no stateful filtering). Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod@acm.org Roedermark, Germany