Subj : Re: IPV6 and Netgear
To   : Nicholas Boel
From : Mattias Larsson
Date : Sat Aug 06 2016 16:17:13

On 08/06/16, Nicholas Boel said the following...
 
On 08/06/16, Nicholas Boel said the following...
 
 NB> I don't think it's supposed to do that. Unsecure packets are usually
 NB> stored in your unsecure inbound directory until you manually inspect
 NB> them, rename them back to .pkt and move them to your secure inbound for
 NB> processing.

Yea, that's exactly what happened and yea, now that you say it it does makes
sense it would work that way.

 NB> However, unsecure sessions should be allowed via the mailer, but anything
 NB> transferred during that session would not be tossed automatically.

I checked my config just now and I do allow unsecure sessions but it doesn't
seem to take in MIS2. I have written in the Mystic area about it. Might be a
bug or unsynced settings or something.

 NB> Did you open your IPv6 ports via your router (or does your router even
 NB> have that feature?)? Or did you allow those ports access via Windows
 NB> firewall/or some third party firewall/antivirus?

That's the fun part, Netgear doesn't have any direct firewall settings in
their UI at all, all opening is done via the Port Forwarding page in the UI
and that only covers IPv4. I was hoping it would set the same rule in the
IPv6 firewall also but I'm not sure if it does. I did find some old post on
Netgears forum from users complaining that Netgear doesn't allow ICMP6 either
and didn't seem to want to change that...

 NB> After that, you could try ipv6-test.com to see if that machine actually
 NB> shows an IPv6 address. If it does, it may also give you a hint as to why
 NB> it's not allowing outside connections.

I might just have to connect my PC straight into the wall just to see if I
can get any IPv6 through. I don't get why they would allow you to setup IPv6
but not having any Firewall-support for it.

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