Comment 0 for bug 1368411

I am unable to insert any rules concerning IPV6 before IPV4 rules. Thus, when IPV4 rules are numbered 1 to 5 and IPV6 rules are numbered 6 to 10, the following command:
[code]
ufw insert 1 deny from 2a02:2210:12:a:b820:fff:fea2:25d1
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errors with "ERROR: Invalid position '1'".

However, the command
[code]
ufw insert 6 deny from 2a02:2210:12:a:b820:fff:fea2:25d1
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succeeds.

In my case, this poses a problem, since I am trying to insert rules from a script against brute force attacks. The script needs to insert blocking rules before a number of other rules that open up some ports (since the order of rules is important in ufw). However since the number of IPV4 rules will be changing all the time, the position of the first available number for an IPV6 address is hard to determine.

Proposed solution: either allow IPV6 rules to precede IPV4 rules, or implement a keyword defining the first available position; e.g. "ufw insert first deny from 2a02:2210:12:a:b820:fff:fea2:25d1".

BTW: this was all figured out with ufw version 0.31.1-1, Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS,