1) In all versions of Shorewall6 lite, the 'shorecap' program is using the 'iptables' program rather than the 'ip6tables' program. This causes many capabilities that are not available in IPv6 to be incorrectly reported as available. This results in errors such as: ip6tables-restore v1.4.2: Couldn't load match `addrtype': /lib/xtables/libip6t_addrtype.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory To work around this problem, on the administrative system: a) Remove the incorrect capabilties file. b) In shorewall6.conf, set the IP6TABLES option to the path name of ip6tables on the firewall (example: IP6TABLES=/sbin/ip6tables). c) 'shorewall6 load '. 2) In a number of cases, Shorewall6 generates incorrect rules involving the IPv6 multicast network. The rules specify ff00::/10 where they should specify ff00::/8. Also, rules instantiated when the IPv6 firewall is stopped use ff80::/10 rather than fe80::/10 (IPv6 link local network). 3) Using a destination port-range with :random produces a fatal compilation error in REDIRECT rules. 4) Shorewall-init is not reliable in bringing up interfaces during boot on Ubuntu systems that use upstart. Suggested workaround is to set startup=1 in your /etc/default/shorewall* files.