Quantum Scientific wrote:

After a week of intensive research and full-time study, it's become clear that 
IPV6 support, as it comes in standard Linux 2.6 kernels, is effectively 
non-functional.

Strange how I use this non-functional support every day.

I have a properly working firewall, but it appears there is no stateful 
filtering nor connection  tracking in the IPV6 stack.  I send out an 

So is there something I'm missing?  Am I completely fscked-up when I say that 
it doesn't work in practice, because there is no stateful packet filtering 
nor connection tracking?

Yes.  IPv6 does not need NAT'ing.  Everyone should have a global 
address.  Connection tracking is not needed.

	Jeff