ipfw "fwd" command fails using ipv6 addresses

[Lars Eggert]

On 2010-11-19, at 21:56, gumbo at bsdmail.org wrote:
> The following command works fine for ipv4 addresses but fails for ipv6 addresses.
> ipfw add 101 fwd nextaddr ip from myaddr to any out
> This works fine if nextaddr and myaddr are ipv4 but fails to work if they resolve to ipv6.
> Is this not yet supported or is there another way to accomplish the same thing ?

I ran into the same issue a few months ago, and the answer was that IPv6 support in ipfw is generally still not on par with IPv4. So yes, this is known.

(I do think that this lack of IPv6 features is a problem. But FreeBSD is a volunteer effort, and I can't commit any of my own cycles to fixing this so I really don't have a right to complain either.)

Lars