Subject: Shorewall6 fails to initialise IPv6 netfilter rules.

From: Patrick Meehan <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2020 19:50:21 +0000 (GMT)

Package: shorewall6
Version: 5.2.3.2-1

Upon boot up shorewall6 fails to initialise IPv6 netfilter rules. Upon running 'ip6tables -L -v' the netfilter table is empty.

The problem is with the '/etc/init.d/shorewall6' script. At the beginning of this script a variable is set to the following, 'SRWL=/sbin/shorewall -6'. If this is changed to the following, 'SRWL=/sbin/shorewall6', the problem is resolved.

I am using Devuan Beowulf, with the stock kernel.

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From: Mark Hindley <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 10:31:04 +0000

Control: tags -1 debian

Patrick,

> The problem is with the '/etc/init.d/shorewall6' script. At the beginning of this script a variable is set to the following, 'SRWL=/sbin/shorewall -6'. If this is changed to the following, 'SRWL=/s…

Many thanks for this. However, shorewall is not a forked package and Devuan uses
Debian's packages directly without recompilation.

Please report this directly to Debian's BTS.

Thanks.

Mark

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From: Mark Hindley <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 16:03:13 +0000

forwarded 522 https://bugs.debian.org/932473