Ip6tables offline... is this a problem?

[Cliffster]

After upgrading fail2ban to 0.83 the system shows Ip6tables OFFLINE. However Apache is ONLINE, so I am okay, right?

PBX in a Flash Version 1.3 Daemon Status
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* Asterisk * ONLINE * Zaptel * ONLINE * MySQL * ONLINE *
* SSH * ONLINE * Apache * ONLINE * Iptables * OFFLINE *
* Fail2ban * ONLINE * IP Connect* ONLINE * Ip6tables * OFFLINE *
* BlueTooth * ONLINE * Hidd * ONLINE * NTPD * ONLINE *
* Sendmail * ONLINE * Samba * ONLINE * Webmin * ONLINE *
* Ethernet0 * ONLINE * Ethernet1 * N/A * Wlan0 * N/A *
********************************************************************
* Running Asterisk Version : Asterisk 1.4.21.2
* Asterisk Source Version : 1.4.21.2
* Zaptel Source Version : 1.4.12.1
* Libpri Source Version : 1.4.7
* Addons Source Version : 1.4.7

root@pbx:~ $ service iptables start
Flushing firewall rules: [ OK ]
Setting chains to policy ACCEPT: filter [ OK ]
Unloading iptables modules: [ OK ]
root@pbx:~ $ service ip6tables start
root@pbx:~ $ /etc/rc.d/init.d/iptables status
Firewall is stopped.
root@pbx:~ $ /etc/rc.d/init.d/ip6tables status
Firewall is stopped.

The not to be questioned company IT administrator assures me that port 5060 is closed, too.