IPv6 support on IP Profiler of InterScan Messaging Security Suite (IMSS) for Linux 7.1 SP1

- Updated:
- 30 Dec 2019
- Product/Version:
- InterScan Messaging Security Suite 7.1 Linux
- Platform:
- Linux - Red Hat RHEL 4 32-bit
- Linux - Red Hat RHEL 5 32-bit
- Linux - Red Hat RHEL 6 32-bit
- Linux - SuSE 10
- Linux - SuSE 9.0

Summary

IMSS 7.1 LX SP1 IP Profiler does not support IPv6. However, you can enable IPv6 by setting Postfix or Sendmail to listen to IPv6 port 25 and IP Profiler process FoxProxy on IPv4 port 25 the same time.

Below is the SMTP traffic for IPv4 and IPv6:

Details

You can set Postfix or Sendmail to listen to IPv6:25 and IP Profiler process Foxproxy to IPv4:25.

To enable:

Using a text editor, add the following lines at the end of /etc/rc.sysinit
if [ -e "/proc/sys/net/ipv6/bindv6only" ];then
echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/bindv6only
fi
Restart Postfix or Sendmail and Foxproxy services by running the following commands:
For Sendmail:
# /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail restart

For Postfix:
# postfix reload

For Foxproxy:
# /opt/trend/ipprofiler/script/foxproxyd restart