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IPV6 pin hole capability?
So first time poster (mercy please) here, as my ole Verizon FIOS router died. I purchased and setup a Netgear NightHawk AX3000 4-Stream WiFi6 Router RAX36S (with a firmware version of V1.0.4.46). ...
I've never seen any pin holing (yes I did go down a rabbit hole after your message) on any of the consumer netgear equipment. I've not been on the business side of things so I can't attest to those. Most users just use the port forwarding option that you've had to be currently using.
And with pin holing tending to be an enterprise feature, you might look towards more business class equipment if that's a feature you're wanting/needing.
Not sure exactly what the "pin hole" feature you're referring to but I use a pihole on my network. works well.
What are you wanting to achieve with this pin hole using your pihole?
Thank you for the response. I use numerous raspberry pi devices on my internal network. While I do use one of them as a pi-hole, the need for the IPV6 pin holing aka: in computer networking, a firewall pinhole is a port that is not protected by a firewall to allow a particular application to gain access to a service on a host in the network protected by the firewall (or router), for my TOR relay that I have hosted for years. The TOR relay (running on one of my other raspberry pi devices) is currently accepting inbound traffic over the TCP port for IPV4 traffic due to the port forwarding rule I put into place on the router. However, I don't see anywhere I can put add a pinhole for IPV6 traffic.
I also host a transmission server (on another raspberry pi device) which I was able to again do IPV4 port forwarding on via the router. The ISC DShield honeypot I run on another raspberry pi device didn't need port forwarding as I put the system in as my DMZ host.
Anyways, BLUF I have a TOR relay running on a raspberry pi that I would like to have IPV6 traffic from the internet forwarded to the device over a single port, but I can't see to find the IVP6 option, which was available on my old Verizon router. I found the option to allow this traffic to this device for IPV4.
Any follow up input from you or others in this forum is appreiated.
Again thank you for responding to my RFI.