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Orbi RKB853 ipv6 firewall
Hey all, Our iSP recently enabled ipv6, and it's all working. I get ipv6 on WAN, and LAN, but I'm missing some info regarding Firewall and public reachability. As there are no ipv6 filtering ...
Hey! Thanks!
Hmm, I did see other peoplem in other places mentioning the filtering button, but I do not have.
What Firmware version are you on? I'm on: V4.6.3.16_2.0.51
and my ipv6 config for WAN is DHCP.
I've done similar test and conclude the Orbi system must have a hidden ipv6 Firewall enabled I guess.
To answer your question on how many ipv6 adresses...
2 Global, which are the public ones, one is based on your MAC adress, the other one is generated to have more privacy, and is the one being used on public routing.
Then you have link only for internal network neighbourg devices and one for loopback.
(I fall into this trap all the time...)
I have the original (2016) Orbi ac. Netgear appears to remove settings with each new product. There is never any explanation. Things just disappear. Must be the case with this IPv6 Secured vs. Open setting. One would think that eventually there will be a need to allow internet traffic into the LAN. I searched for IPv6 DDNS and got..... no hits. With ISP's free to change addresses on subscribers at will I have no idea how one would set up an IPv6 resource that can be followed the way we do with IPv4 DDNS.
Thanks for the information about IPv6.