Shorewall6 (IPv6 support package for shorewall) The Shoreline Firewall, more commonly known as "Shorewall", is a Netfilter (iptables) based firewall that can be used on a dedicated firewall system, a multi-function gateway/router/server or on a standalone GNU/Linux system. This is the IPv6 part of Shorewall. It only provides IPv6 support. The IPv6 part is started by /etc/rc.d/rc.shorewall6 from rc.firewall (provided by shorewall-common) if both are executable. rc.shorewall provided by shorewall-common will only start the IPv4 part of the firewall. Both can run simultaneously. You will also need the shorewall package.