Bug 82860

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Description of problem:
Line 54 in /etc/init.d/ip6tables refers to /proc/net/ip_tables_names to clear
out existing defined chains. Surely this should be /proc/net/ip6_tables_names? 
This generates an error when the internal chains for the different IP versions
differ.

Also the security guide, section "ip6tables" at:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/security-guide/s1-firewall-ip6t.html

says that "IPChains and IPTables services must be turned off to use the
IP6Tables service". This doesn't appear to be true for this IPV6 newbie: the two
operate independently.

If I'm misunderstanding the inter-relationship between iptables in IPV4 and IPV6
my apologies.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set up different new user-defined chains in iptables for IPV4
2. service ip6tables start
3. See errors about non-existent tables for IPV6
    

Actual Results:  Flushing all current rules and user defined chains:        [  OK  ]
Clearing all current rules and user defined chains:        [  OK  ]
ip6tables v1.2.5: can't initialize ip6tables table `nat': Table does not exist
(do you need to insmod?)
Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded.
...

Expected Results:  Flushing all current rules and user defined chains:        [
 OK  ]
Clearing all current rules and user defined chains:        [  OK  ]
Applying ip6tables firewall rules:                         [  OK  ]
                                                           [  OK  ]


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