ip6fw byte reporting error in v6

[Pekka Savola]

On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote:
> Pekka Savola wrote:
>>  Fiddling around with ipfw, I noticed that 'ip6fw -ta l', under byte
>>  reports, does not include the base IPv6 header in the length calculation
>>  (hmm.. I wonder how it would calculate the length of extension-header
>>  chained packet).
>>
>>  IPv4 byte statistics, on the other hand, include the IPv4 header bytes.
>>
>>  Is this a known problem?  Is it a more general BSD kernel problem?
>
> Probably, you should use ipfw(8) instead of ip6fw(8). ip6fw was removed and 
> it's functional moved into ipfw(8).

FWIW -- a rule generated by ipfw(8) counts the length correctly.

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