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#303309 31-Jan-2023 14:11
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Wondering if anyone has been able to get IPv6 working using an Asus router with Orcon UFB? I have had a trawl through the forums here but was unable to find any configs that people had working!

 

My router is an AX82U (running merlin 388.1 0-gnuton1).

 

Internet through IPv4 is working fantastically however I would like to try and get IPv6 working. Using connection type [Native] with DHCP-PD enabled and a prefix length of 56 my router is given an IPv6 address and by logging in through SSH I am able to ping IPv6 addresses no problem. Clients are given IPv6 addresses through DHCP (I get one on my laptop beginning fe80:, and two beginning 2404:) however they cannot ping or communicate with any IPv6 addresses.

 

An example traceroute6 from the router:

 

traceroute to google.com (2404:6800:4006:80b::200e), 30 hops max, 16 byte packets
 1  default-rdns.vocus.co.nz (2400:4800::30)  2.259 ms  4.637 ms  3.560 ms
 2  2620:107:4008:6ff::2 (2620:107:4008:6ff::2)  45.152 ms  43.978 ms  43.633 ms
 3  2001:4860:1:1::1510 (2001:4860:1:1::1510)  44.179 ms  42.878 ms  43.765 ms
 4  2404:6800:80d8::1 (2404:6800:80d8::1)  44.624 ms  43.576 ms  *
 5  2001:4860:0:1::4240 (2001:4860:0:1::4240)  45.208 ms  46.208 ms  43.844 ms
 6  2001:4860:0:1108::a (2001:4860:0:1108::a)  42.530 ms  42.833 ms  43.917 ms
 7  2001:4860:0:1109::1 (2001:4860:0:1109::1)  44.165 ms  45.028 ms  44.155 ms
 8  2001:4860:0:1::5f7 (2001:4860:0:1::5f7)  44.335 ms  43.839 ms  43.936 ms
 9  syd09s17-in-x0e.1e100.net (2404:6800:4006:80b::200e)  43.204 ms  44.038 ms  43.749 ms

 

and from my laptop

 

traceroute6 to google.com (2404:6800:4006:813::200e), 64 hops max, 12 byte packets
 1  my-router-name  2.998 ms  2.624 ms  2.869 ms
 2  default-rdns.vocus.co.nz  27.566 ms  27.344 ms  27.731 ms
 3  * *

 

Any idea what is going on? I tried searching online but couldn't quite find anything that would help, aside from suggestions that it was a routing issue?

 

 

 

Cheers!


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  #3030142 1-Feb-2023 02:22
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I have no experience with Asus routers, but my guess would be that there is a default IPv6 firewall running and it is set to block all IPv6 traffic through the router.  Remember that with IPv6, there is no NAT to protect devices from incoming traffic, so you need firewall rules to do that.  It may be that Asus have a default rule in place to prevent all your IPv6 capable devices from suddenly being open to the entire Internet when IPv6 is connected to the router.  That would be an improvement on most routers, which do nothing to prevent incoming IPv6 traffic and where you need to do the firewall setup yourself and should have done that before enabling IPv6.

 

The standard set of firewall rules for IPv6 to prevent incoming connections but allow outbound connections typically has something like these rules:

 

1) Permit incoming ICMPv6 packets on the list of necessary ones for IPv6 to work (such as "packet too big").

 

2) Permit incoming IPv6 packets matching an existing outbound connection.

 

3) Permit outbound IPv6 packets.

 

4) Deny all other inbound IPv6 packets.


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