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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH IP6TABLES 8 "Mar 09, 2002" "" ""
+.TH IP6TABLES 8 "Jan 22, 2006" "" ""
 .\"
 .\" Man page written by Andras Kis-Szabo <kisza@sch.bme.hu>
 .\" It is based on iptables man page.
@@ -73,7 +73,19 @@ means to let the packet through.
 .I DROP
 means to drop the packet on the floor.
 .I QUEUE
-means to pass the packet to userspace (if supported by the kernel).
+means to pass the packet to userspace.  (How the packet can be received
+by a userspace process differs by the particular queue handler.  2.4.x
+and 2.6.x kernels up to 2.6.13 include the 
+.B
+ip_queue
+queue handler.  Kernels 2.6.14 and later additionally include the 
+.B
+nfnetlink_queue
+queue handler.  Packets with a target of QUEUE will be sent to queue number '0'
+in this case. Please also see the
+.B
+NFQUEUE
+target as described later in this man page.)
 .I RETURN
 means stop traversing this chain and resume at the next rule in the
 previous (calling) chain.  If the end of a built-in chain is reached
@@ -119,6 +131,16 @@ Since kernel 2.4.18, three other built-in chains are also supported:
 (for altering packets being routed through the box), and
 .B POSTROUTING
 (for altering packets as they are about to go out).
+.TP
+.BR "raw" :
+This table is used mainly for configuring exemptions from connection
+tracking in combination with the NOTRACK target.  It registers at the netfilter
+hooks with higher priority and is thus called before nf_conntrack, or any other
+IP6 tables.  It provides the following built-in chains:
+.B PREROUTING
+(for packets arriving via any network interface)
+.B OUTPUT
+(for packets generated by local processes)
 .RE
 .SH OPTIONS
 The options that are recognized by
@@ -219,11 +241,18 @@ The protocol of the rule or of the packet to check.
 The specified protocol can be one of
 .IR tcp ,
 .IR udp ,
-.IR ipv6-icmp|icmpv6 ,
-or
+.IR icmpv6 ,
+.IR esp ,
 .IR all ,
 or it can be a numeric value, representing one of these protocols or a
-different one.  A protocol name from /etc/protocols is also allowed.
+different one. A protocol name from /etc/protocols is also allowed.
+But IPv6 extension headers except
+.IR esp
+are not allowed.
+.IR esp ,
+and
+.IR ipv6-nonext
+can be used with Kernel version 2.6.11 or later.
 A "!" argument before the protocol inverts the
 test.  The number zero is equivalent to
 .IR all .
@@ -426,7 +455,8 @@ There are several other changes in ip6tables.
 .BR ip6tables-restore(8),
 .BR iptables (8),
 .BR iptables-save (8),
-.BR iptables-restore (8).
+.BR iptables-restore (8),
+.BR libipq (3).
 .P
 The packet-filtering-HOWTO details iptables usage for
 packet filtering, the NAT-HOWTO details NAT,
@@ -448,7 +478,7 @@ James Morris wrote the TOS target, and tos match.
 .PP
 Jozsef Kadlecsik wrote the REJECT target.
 .PP
-Harald Welte wrote the ULOG target, TTL match+target and libipulog.
+Harald Welte wrote the ULOG and NFQUEUE target, the new libiptc, aswell as TTL match+target and libipulog.
 .PP
 The Netfilter Core Team is: Marc Boucher, Martin Josefsson, Jozsef Kadlecsik,
 James Morris, Harald Welte and Rusty Russell.