GUI via IPV6

[Rooby]

Hello

I could not manage to get acces to the GUI via IPV6.
I tried it via WAN port from outside or with the local IPV6.
Without any success. I have opened the ports 8080 and 8443 on the IPV6 firewall.
Ist the GUI only accessable via a IPV4 address?
This would be very bad since my new ISP has only IPV6 and DS-light so I need access over the WAN interface via IPV6.

 

[charlie2alpha]

The httpd daemon only listens on the IPv4 address hence the GUI is only available via IPv4. That's an Asus design choice.

 

[Rooby]

OK this means on Kabel BW or Unitymedia ISP in Germany (IPV6 + IPV4 DS-light) this router is not accessible from WAN.
This are really bad news and a limitation since IPV6 will be the future.

 

[8023]

Das Webinterface sollte nach Möglichkeit nie vom WAN aus erreichbar sein... Du solltest dich über VPN einwählen und über diesen gesicherten Tunnel auf den ASUS zugreifen...

 

[Rooby]

Das is korrekt aber wenn ich remote an meinem OpenVPN konfiguriere kann es mal sein, dass ich mich aussperre. Dann war ich jedesmal froh wenn ich noch per https reinkomme. Sonst bleibt nur ssh in der Konsole und dann wird es kompliziert.

 

[L&LD]

English please?

 

[RussellInCincinnati]

why is ipv4-only GUI access "really bad news"

OK this means on Kabel BW or Unitymedia ISP in Germany (IPV6 + IPV4 DS-light) this router is not accessible from WAN.
This are really bad news and a limitation since IPV6 will be the future.

Am having no trouble at all reaching ipV6 websites from the _50 firmware, on an AC68u router with Windows 7, 8.1 and 10, Android and iPad clients. As a trivial example, when I ping google.com, the response is an ipV6 address. And the http://test-ipv6.com/ website gives me a perfect 10/10 score.

The only thing that I cannot do, is reach the Asus router graphical user interface from a client that ONLY supports ipV6 protocol. Of course I have no such client devices, all my computers support ipV4 and ipV6, so of course all my devices can reach the Asus router user interface.

(I tested the ability to reach the router GUI via ipV6-only by temporarily disabling the ipV4 protocol stack in a Windows 10 machine)

Could you please explain to me what device ONLY supports ipV6, and that must, in an important way, reach the Asus graphical user interface? It can't be a Windows or Mac machine, or an Android or iOS computer. My guess is that it will be many years before client devices exist that support ipV6 only, and also need to reach an Asus router config screen. That is the same number of years that Asus will have to implement an ipV6-only-reachable GUI, at their convenience.

If I wanted to share files on the web in a serious way, I would pay $70 U.S. dollars for a low-end NAS http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/291356092835?lpid=82&chn=ps with tons of IPv6 features and serious file-sharing security that would work faster and better than the Asus router USB ports.

 

[Rooby]

The problem is e.g. Unitymedia, KabelBW a big ISP in Germany. They do only support IPV6+DS-light meaning IPV4 adresses are embeedded in IPV6 so you only have an IPV6 address from your ISP. All IPV4 accesses are embedded in IPV6 and automatically deembedded in the Router you must use from them.
So If you want to reach from outside you have only IPV6 available.
This is the case today and not is some years! So Asus should have implemented this already since IPV6 is standardized since 1998. So far enough time to implement.