Subject: Re: bug#522: Shorewall6 fails to initialise IPv6 netfilter rules.

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

Control: tags -1 debian

Patrick,

On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 07:50:21PM +0000, Patrick Meehan wrote:
> 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.

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