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Re: IPv6 Firewalls

  • From: J. Oquendo
  • Date: Tue Jan 30 18:00:18 2007
Joseph S D Yao wrote:
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 09:43:52PM -0500, J. Oquendo wrote:
...
A lot of vendor information on this, etc. can be summarized over at http://www.moonv6.org/ (or at least the hype of it)
...


This is why I asked: at some point last year, those guys said NO
firewalls were IPv6-ready yet.


From their last tests (http://www.moonv6.org/project/july2006/Moonv6_2006_Whitepaper.pdf) it seemed they accomplished a lot of their tasks. They didn't include the list of vendors that tested though:


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Firewall deep-inspection functionality of application traffic in a mixed IPv4/IPv6 environment was validated and compared with the same test scenarios in an IPv4 oenvironment. A realistic protocol mix was configured to simulate the forwarding and blocking capabilities in an actual network.

A critical concern that must be addressed in an IPv4/IPv6 transition environment is equivalent quality of the user experience. If a security device performs adequately wIPv4, it should also sustain comparable performance levels when processing mixed IPv4/IPv6 and pure IPv6 traffic. Responding to that concern, the 2006 Moonv6 Transition Test Suite included performance tests that compared security devices IPv6 and mixed IPv4/IPv6 performance. These tests used real-world application mix traffic to measure the metrics. The tests successfully validated that security devices casustain adequate performance and QoE levels in transition IPv4/IPv6 environments.

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