Subj : Connection Tests
To   : Michiel van der Vlist
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Tue Apr 04 2023 01:23 pm

  Re: Connection Tests
  By: Michiel van der Vlist to Rob Swindell on Tue Apr 04 2023 02:34 pm

 > Hello Rob,
 >
 > On Monday April 03 2023 10:35, you wrote to deon:
 >
 >  RS> I've never used the ISP's router's port
 >  RS> blocking/forwarding/NAT/gateway features before (for IPv4), so now I'm
 >  RS> looking what it supports. It does have DHCPv6 and DHCP-PD was
 >  RS> disabled, so I've enabled that and expecting for it to hand out
 >  RS> addresses in the range:
 >
 >  RS> 2600:6c88:8c40:5b::1 to ::1000 (according to its default
 >  RS> configuration)
 >
 >  RS> I haven't seen that happen yet.
 >
 > But it has assigned 2600:6c88:8c40:5b::f5a to your Fidonet machine.

Using that as vert's public IPv6 and adding it to the ISP router's DMZ (and IPV6 DMZ, they're 2 different settings) did the trick. <shrug>

 >  RS> There are also options for Port Forwarding, Firewall, IPv6 Pin-holing,
 >
 > Ah, so they cal it pin-holing. :)
 >
 > That is what you need for incoming IPv6.

I didn't having any luck playing with the Pin-holing. I'd rather DMZ-it anyway as I have far too many services and ports.

 > As you can see in my list of IPv6 nodes, many Fidonet sysops have assigned a
 > ::f1d0:1:103:705 type of address for their Fidonet node.

That is cute.

 > How about outgoing connections? Have you made an outgoing IPv6 binkp connect
 > yet? Feel free to try to connect to my system for testing.

Yeah, outbound IPv6 connections were fine.
-- 
                                            digital man (rob)

Breaking Bad quote #49:
So you do have a plan? Yeah, Mr. White! Yeah, Science! - Jesse Pinkman
Norco, CA WX: 58.5øF, 28.0% humidity, 7 mph E wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrs

.