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Express Logic, Inc., the worldwide leader in royalty-free real-time operating systems (RTOS), today announced that its NetX Duo’ dual IPv4/IPv6 TCP/IP stack has successfully passed rigorous IPv6-Ready Logo testing.
Complete info at CEN, Benzinga and EarthTimes.
CFS, A Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) firewall, Login/Intrusion Detection and Security application for Linux servers, has added BETA support to their firewall:
5.04
Added BETA IPv6 support. See csf.conf for more information on the new
settings: IPV6 IP6TABLES IPV6_ICMP_STRICT IPV6_SPI TCP6_IN TCP6_OUT
UDP6_IN UDP6_OUT
New CLI option csf –status6 (csf -l6) added to list ip6tables rules
Changed temporary DENY and ACCEPT working file formats to use a
different record separator to cater for future IPv6 support
Advanced Allow/Deny Filters now use | as the separator character to
cope with IPv6 addresses. Legacy support remains for the old :
separator for IPv4 addresses, though these should also now use | as
the field separator
In Server Check report, don’t issue IPv6 warning if only ::1/128 is
bound to a NIC (i.e. loopback)
Upgraded Net::CIDR::Lite to v0.21
Upgraded from IP::Countries to Geography::Countries
Read more about CFS: http://www.configserver.com/cp/csf.html
LACNIC recently allocated 1 Million addresses to NIC Mexico for further allocations to organisations in the region. This allocation pushes LACNIC’s pool a low level. We might see LACNIC requesting 2 more blocks from IANA soon. That allocation would most likely be the last allocation of IPv4 addresses LACNIC ever will make.
RIPE NCC and APNIC are also getting close to needing more addresses so we might see a total of 3 allocations of 2 blocks each soon. After the summer, I expect that we only will have 9 usable block in the IANA pool (except for the additional 5 that is already reserved for each RIR).
The estimated depletion date has been steady for the last couple of months. It is steadily pointing to a depletion of the IANA pool in March next year.
