Re: (usagi-users 03234) Re: support of IPv6 by NFS

On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 07:13:32 CST, Quantum Scientific said:

It goes without saying that one should not rely entirely on a firewall.  To 
assert that I say this is a canard.  But the *reason* one should not rely 
entirely on a firewall is, in case you accidentally open a hole, not because 
ip6tables is 'weak'!  

Hey, the reason you're taking all the flames here is because *YOU* are the one
who said that the IPv6 stuff was "unusable" because it didn't have a firewall
that did connection tracking.

If it's something you shouldn't be relying on, the lack of it doesn't render
something (in your own words):

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.

So the lack of something you "should not rely on entirely" makes it "effectively
non-functional".

Right.