Bug 247568 - FreeBSD Handbook: ipfilter(4) IPV6 examples and documentation missing
Summary: FreeBSD Handbook: ipfilter(4) IPV6 examples and documentation missing
Status: Open
Alias: None
Product: Documentation
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Books & Articles (show other bugs)
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any Any
: --- Affects Some People
Assignee: freebsd-doc (Nobody)
URL: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/han...
Keywords: ipfilter, ipv6, needs-patch
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Blocks: handbook-2022
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Reported: 2020-06-26 21:50 UTC by joeb1
Modified: 2023-10-07 23:45 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description joeb1 2020-06-26 21:50:39 UTC
Running 12.1 and working on adding ipv6 public network provided by my ISP. Been using ipfilter since fbsd 4.0. Reading /usr/share/examples/ipfilter I find there are no examples about ipv6. Further more there are no ipfilter ipv6 info at all in the handbook.

The README file gives 2 url's for the home of ipfilter which are now dead.

ipfilter documentation across the board needs to be updated to include ipv6 support.
Comment 1 Cy Schubert freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2020-07-14 19:41:11 UTC
My contact at NetBSD is good friends with Darren. Darren has stopped maintaining IP Filter for now.

I have used ipf in FreeBSD since FreeBSD 3 and Solaris since 2.3, before it was part of either O/S.

I and Christos at NetBSD maintain it, sharing patches and fixes. I have forked a copy onto github, though I've yet to merge my work here on FreeBSD back to it.

I have also been asked to merge ipf 5 into Illumos but have yet to find the time for it. They have added a zone feature that I need to implement in FreeBSD before updating their copy to 5.1.2.

IPv6 support in ipf is incomplete, it's missing from ippool in the kernel, my current focus. There are a number of inconsistencies between the kernel module and the userland that still need to be addressed.

IPv6 support was added late in the ipfilter 4 release cycle.

Unfortunately I am an unpaid volunteer. Support is as an unpaid volunteer as I have time. I must prioritize. I am willing to accept patches for the handbook and for /usr/share/examples/ipfilter to expedite this. Otherwise as an unpaid volunteer I must prioritize as my time permits.