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Connect to local IPv6 from external network.
I enabled IPv6 on my R7000 router and I was able to connect to a local web server running on port 5000 using the IPv6 address of my local machine. This worked for all machines on my LAN. However ...
IPv6 on these routers is not routed. You don't get a local LAN address but a public one. There is no NAT going on. Do you have a firewall that blocks the port?
I have not been able to identify any firewalls on the router, at least I think so. I have not configured any so I would assume not. Also I don't know where to check.
As far as possible firewalls on my local machine, my ip6table chain input is as so
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination
So it should be accepting everything that is incoming I assume.