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donawalt
Mentor - Experienced User
Aug 07, 2024

IPv6 Filtering - open or secure?

The Orbi 970 settings under IPv6 has a new setting - "IPv6 filtering". Two choices are Open or Secure, it came default as secure.   Anyone know anything about this, and which may be preferred when?...
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donawalt
Mentor - Experienced User
Aug 07, 2024

Thanks FURRYe38 ! I left it set to Secure. That way, months from now when something weird happens I'll have no idea why and I can search for hours before remembering this lol! (PS - not a gamer; PPS - I thought I read that with it 'open' there could be access from the outside to the user's IPv6 network)

 

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FURRYe38
Guru - Experienced User
Aug 07, 2024

Ya Open is less secure. 

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    donawalt
    Mentor - Experienced User
    Aug 08, 2024

    It's been about 16 hours, and on my 970 system, IPv6 is running fine. I could not get more than 3-4 hours before it failed with this setting on Secure. It's Open now, and everything runs well. I opened a support ticket on it.