ipv6 firewall

[TheOldMan]

R Merlin, is the ipv6 firewall your creation or did Asus give it to you to use in the your firmware for all to test? It works so well and I'm surprised Asus is not assimilating it in their firmware. Thanks for your hard work making your firmware better than the stock firmware.

 

[RMerlin]

R Merlin, is the ipv6 firewall your creation or did Asus give it to you to use in the your firmware for all to test? It works so well and I'm surprised Asus is not assimilating it in their firmware. Thanks for your hard work making your firmware better than the stock firmware.

It's fully my own work.

 

[jim769]

It's fully my own work.

And Thank You for that !!!

 

[RogerSC]

Yes, too many high-end routers have IPv6 support with no firmware firewall. The user is expected to add ip6tables rules to do this, although I'll bet a lot of users don't know what ip6tables rules are, and more don't know how to write them. Terrible security model by the router manufacturers as far as I'm concerned. IPv6 needs a firewall even more than IPv4, so that makes this omission even worse.

You can find out for yourself if you have IPv6 enabled, whether your router has a firewall by using a port scanner, such as one of these:

http://ipv6.chappell-family.com/ipv6tcptest/

https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2

For the second one, you have one more screen to go to where you can select the "All Service Ports" scanner, but good to look around on that site...you can also test your UPNP there, and lots of interesting information.